masked man fallacy (English, noun)
expansion: masked man fallacy (plural masked man fallacies)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A fallacy of inferring that since one knows (or does not know) something by one description, one must know (or not know) it by another, as in "I know who my father is. I do not know who the masked man is. Therefore, my father is not the masked man."
Forms:
form: masked man fallacies
tags: plural
form: masked-man fallacy
tags: alternative