four terms - fallacy of

<fallacia, syllogism, logic, rethoric>, <argument, antinomy, mathematics, dialectic>, <epistemology, deduction, induction, demostration, proof>, <persuasion, reason, knowledge, aristotelianism, Aquinas>, <scholasticism> (quaternio terminorum) - the formal fallacy committed in a categorical syllogism that is invalid because it employs more than three distinct categorical terms. Example: "All managers are politicians, and all sybarites are administrators, so all sybarites are politicians."

[A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names]

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