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50+ Logic Terms

John Spacey, July 29, 2016

Logic is a term for formal systems of reasoning that provide symbols, conventions, principles and techniques to prove or disproof statements. The following are common terms related to logic.

Abductive Reasoning	Abstraction
Affirming The Consequent	Appeal To Accomplishment
Argument From Ignorance	Argument From Silence
Arrow Of Time	Backward Induction
Base Rate Fallacy	Broken Window Fallacy
Catch 22	Causality
Cherry Picking	Circular Reasoning
Cold Logic	Common Sense
Conjunction Fallacy	Conspiracy Fallacy
Correlation Proves Causation	Deductive Reasoning
Equivocation	Excluded Middle
Fallacy	Fallacy Fallacy
Fallacy Of Composition	Fallacy Of Division
False Analogy	False Dichotomy
False Equivalence	Formal Logic
Forward Chaining	Fuzzy Logic
Gambler's Fallacy	Grey Area
If By Whiskey	Illogical Success
Inductive Reasoning	Inference
Informal Logic	Intuition
Kettle Logic	Limits Of Logic
Logical Fallacies	Logical Thinking
Ludic Fallacy	Magical Thinking
Mutually Exclusive	Nirvana Fallacy
Not Even Wrong	Objective Reason
Overwhelming Exception	Premise
Proof By Example	Propositional Logic
Prosecutor's Fallacy	Proving Too Much
Reasoning	Red Herring
Reductio Ad Absurdum	Reification
Scientific Fact	Slippery Slope
Survivorship Bias	Thought Terminating Cliche

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