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The '''argument from fallacy''', also known as '''argumentum ad logicam''' or '''fallacy fallacy''', is a [[logical fallacy]] which assumes that if an [[argument]] is fallacious, its conclusion must be false. A fallacious argument can still have a true conclusion; the existence of the fallacy only means that the conclusion isn't ''guaranteed'' to be true. <ref>"The death of argument: fallacies in agent based reasoning" By John Woods, [[Springer]] 2004, p. 25 [http://books.google.com/books?id=fixdSW0eGlAC&printsec=frontcover&source=in&hl=en&ei=wE3nSqL5Bs3FlAfNheX4Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=11&ved=0CDgQ6AEwCg#v=onepage&q=argument%20from%20fallacy&f=false] </ref>

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==References==

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*[http://www.fallacyfiles.org/fallfall.html Fallacy Fallacy] The Fallacy Files

* David Hackett Fischer, ''Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought'' Harper & Row, 1970, pp. 305-306.