The fallacy called kafkatrapping doesn’t represent an argument as much as it represents an accusation. Named after the famous Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial in which the main character is accused of an unknown crime. The only evidence is his denial of guilt. The fallacy occurs not with the accusation but with the verdict. Accusing…
Category: Equivocation Fallacies
Equivocation Fallacies are arguments that draw a false conclusion from the ambiguity of one or more of its terms.
Concretism
Amphiboly
Amphiboly comes from the Greek word amphybolía, meaning ambiguity. In essence, this fallacy hinges on the meaning of a sentence being open to multiple ways of interpretation. Often, this even has a humoristic effect and it is therefore seldomly used as a serious attempt to win an argument by use of this fallacy. While the…
Accent
The fallacy of accent is a fallacy that arises when stressing different words of the sentence lead to different interpretations of the meaning of the sentence. In Latin it can be referred to as the Accentus, and we categorise it as an Informal Fallacy, of the type Equivocation fallacies. In written text, when it is…