Definist fallacy
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This article is about the fallacy coined by William Frankena. For other uses, see Definist fallacy (disambiguation).
The definist fallacy (sometimes called the Socratic fallacy, after Socrates)[1] is a logical fallacy, identified by William Frankena in 1939, that involves the definition of one property in terms of another.[2]
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