Continuum fallacy

What it is

Rejects a distinction because there is no sharp boundary between the extremes ("there is no exact point where a man becomes bald, so nobody is bald").

Related

• Equivocation fallacy
  Continuum arguments exploit vague terms, much as equivocation exploits ambiguous ones.
• Weasel words fallacy
  Vague terms like "tall" or "heap" have fuzzy edges that continuum arguments exploit.

References

• Wikipedia: Continuum fallacy en.wikipedia.org
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Fallacies iep.utm.edu
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Fallacies plato.stanford.edu
• Wikipedia: List of fallacies en.wikipedia.org
• Purdue OWL: Logical fallacies owl.purdue.edu

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