Inphilosophy,correlative-based fallacies areinformal fallacies based oncorrelative conjunctions.
A correlative conjunction is a relationship between two statements where one must be false and the other true. In formal logic this is known as theexclusive or relationship; traditionally, terms between which this relationship exists have been calledcontradictories.
In the following example, statementb explicitly negates statementa:
Statements can also bemutually exclusive, without explicitly negating each other as in the following example:
Fallacies based on correlatives include:[1]
Correlational fallacy in psychology
