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Reasoning patterns that run alongside fallacies—parallel to them, related to them, but distinct. Parafallacies are the cousins of fallacies: they share family resemblance but aren't the same thing. A paradox might look like a contradiction but isn't; a tautology might look like circular reasoning but isn't; a rhetorical flourish might look like an appeal to emotion but serves a different purpose. Parafallacies remind us that not every departure from strict logic is an error—some are features, not bugs, of human reasoning.
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