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Denying the Antecedent: Its Effective Use in Argumentation
Informal Logic, 2012 Denying the antecedent is an invalid form of reasoning that is typically identified and frowned upon as a formal fallacy. Contrary to arguments that it does not or at least should not occur, denying the antecedent is a legitimate and effective strategy ...
Mark A. Stone
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Denying the Antecedent: A Common Fallacy?
Informal Logic, 1994 An argumentative passage that might appear to be an instance of denying the antecedent will generally admit of an alternative interpretation, one on which the conditional contained by the passage is a preface to the argument rather than a premise of it ...
Michael B. Burke
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Denying Antecedents and Affirming Consequents: The State of the Art
Informal Logic, 2015 Recent work on conditional reasoning argues that denying the antecedent [DA] and affirming the consequent [AC] are defeasible but cogent patterns of argument, either because they are effective, rational, albeit heuristic applications of Bayesian ...
David Godden, Frank Zenker
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Denying the Antecedent: The Fallacy That Never Was, or Sometimes Isn’t? [PDF]
Informal Logic, 2016 : In this paper we examine two challenges to the orthodox understanding of the fallacy of denying the antecedent. One challenge is to say that passages thought to express the fallacy can usually be given an interpretation on which they express valid ...
Luis Duarte d’Almeida, Euan MacDonald
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Denying the Antecedent as a Legitimate Argumentative Strategy: A Dialectical Model
Informal Logic, 2004 The standard account of denying the antecedent (DA) is that it is a deductively invalid form of argument, and that, in a conditional argument, to argue from the falsity of the antecedent to the falsity of the consequent is always fallacious.
David Godden
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Pragmatic Considerations in the Interpretation of Denying the Antecedent
Informal Logic, 2009 In this paper I am concerned with the analysis of fragments of a discourse or text that express arguments suspected of being denials of the antecedent. I first argue that one needs to distinguish between two senses of ‘the argument expressed’.
Andrei Moldovan
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Informal Logic, 1995 Jesus has been accused of committing a fallacy (of denying the antecedent) at John 8:47. Careful analysis of this text (1) reveals a hitherto unrecognized valid form of argument which can superficially look like the predicate-logic analogue of denying ...
Aaron Ben-Zeev
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Concomitance Syllogism in The Holy Quran [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2018 The syllogism that its major premise is a conjunctive proposition is called concomitance syllogism. This sort of syllogism is valid in two forms of "affirming the antecedent" and "denying the consequent", and is invalid in all others forms.
mohammad javad dakami +1 more
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The Frege-Geach Problem and the Logic of Higher-Order Attitudes [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2023 Moral expressivism suggests that 1) moral sentences lack truth conditions and 2) our purpose in asserting moral sentences is to express non-cognitive attitudes such as desires, approval, or disapproval.
Bahram Alizade
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MODUS PONENS AND MODUS TOLLENS: THEIR VALIDITY/INVALIDITY IN NATURAL LANGUAGE ARGUMENTS
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2017 The precedent studies on the validity of Modus ponens and Modus tollens have been carried out with most regard to a major type of conditionals in which the conditional clause is a sufficient condition for the main clause.
Ri Yong-Sok
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