Definist fallacy

Last updated May 29, 2025

Definist fallacy may refer to:

Persuasive definition, misrepresenting an idiosyncratic definition as a term's common meaning
A purported fallacy involving the definition of one property in terms of another, described by William Frankena as part of a 1939 critique of G.E. Moore's writing about the naturalistic fallacy

See also

Fallacies of definition

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