Syllogistic fallacy
Appearance
Syllogistic fallacies are logical fallacies that occur in syllogisms. They include:
Any syllogism type (other than polysyllogism and disjunctive):
Occurring in categorical syllogisms:
- affirmative conclusion from a negative premise
- existential fallacy
- fallacy of exclusive premises
- fallacy of the undistributed middle
- illicit major
- illicit minor
- fallacy of necessity
Occurring in disjunctive syllogisms:
Occurring in statistical syllogisms (dicto simpliciter fallacies):