Definist fallacy

The definist fallacy (sometimes called the Socratic fallacy, after Socrates) is a logical fallacy, identified by William Frankena in 1939, that involves the definition of one property in terms of another.

This article is about the fallacy coined by William Frankena. For other uses, see Definist fallacy (disambiguation).
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