The ambiguous use of a term in a deductive argument may be an instance of the fallacy of four terms.
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Therefore, " nothing " acts as two different words in this example, thus creating the fallacy of four terms.
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In everyday reasoning, the fallacy of four terms occurs most frequently by equivocation : using the same word or phrase but with a different meaning each time, creating a fourth term even though only three distinct words are used:
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:: That's what I thought, but the intro to fallacy of four terms says that this is " the formal fallacy that occurs when a syllogism has four ( or more ) terms rather than the requisite three ".
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Now while this may seem obvious to some, I sense that the film makes it appear as though the bomb never exploded in any reality, generating a sort of fallacy of four terms that is being pulled over the audience's eyes . "'