This article is about the fallacy coined by William Frankena. For other uses, see Definist fallacy (disambiguation).
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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]
^William J. Prior, "Plato and the 'Socratic Fallacy'", Phronesis43(2) (1998), pp. 97–113.
^Bunnin, Nicholas; Yu, Jiyuan (2008), The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy, John Wiley & Sons, p. 165, ISBN 978-0-470-99721-5
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