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* Fallacies that violate the structural criterion.

The structural criterion requires that one who argues for or against a position should use an argument that meets the fundamental structural requirements of a well-formed argument, using premises that are compatible with one another, that do not contradict the conclusion, that do not assume the truth of the conclusion, and that are not involved in any faulty deductive inference.

Fallacies such as begging the question, denying the antecedent, or undistributed middle violate this criterion.