According to Aristotle, this is a "false inference": Such rhetoric asserts "probable impossibliities".
A misleading statement is one from which a 'reasonable person' would be likely to make a false inference, even though the statement is not false.
Again, there is a composite kind of recognition involving false inference on the part of one of the characters, as in the Odysseus Disguised as a Messenger.
But this is a false inference.
Giraldus Cambrensis, according to Thatcher apparently drew a false inference from John of Salisbury's works by saying that John went as the king's ambassador to the pope.
That's why his characters tend to be deluded, misinformed, confused, prone to false inferences, easily misled.
Mr. Doumou played down these fears, saying critics had drawn false inferences from some of festival's early promotional material.
Validity, which means that the system's rules of proof will never allow a false inference from true premises.
No false inferences: The expression should confuse or mislead the reader by suggesting false implicatures or other pragmatic inferences.
It is easy for interviewers to jump to conclusions, often resulting in a "costly hiring error due to false inference".