Fallacies of definition
Ways in which a term may be poorly defined / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Fallacies of definition are the various ways in which definitions can fail to explain terms. The phrase is used to suggest an analogy with an informal fallacy.[1] Definitions may be considered to fail to have merit, because they: are overly broad, use obscure or ambiguous language, or contain circular reasoning; those are called fallacies of definition.[2] Three major fallacies are: overly broad, overly narrow, and mutually exclusive definitions,[3] a fourth is: incomprehensible definitions,[4] and one of the most common[5] is circular definitions.[6]