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Learning about informal fallacies and the detection of fake news: An experimental intervention.
The philosophical concept of informal fallacies-arguments that fail to provide sufficient support for a claim-is introduced and connected to the topic of fake news detection.
Timon M J Hruschka, Markus Appel
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Circles and analogies in public health reasoning [PDF]
The study of the fallacies has changed almost beyond recognition since Charles Hamblin called for a radical reappraisal of this area of logical inquiry in his 1970 book Fallacies.
Cummings, L
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The Abuses of Argument: Understanding Fallacies on Toulmin’s Layout of Argument
This paper provides a preliminary account of fallacies on Toulmin’s model of argument, one that improves upon previous attempts to understand fallacies on this argument scheme.
Andrew Pineau
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The Coherence of Hamblin’s Fallacies
Hamblin’s Fallacies remains one of the crucial documents in the development of informal logic and argumentation theory. His critique of traditional approaches to the fallacies (what he dubbed ‘The Standard Treatment’) helped to revitalize the study of ...
Ralph Johnson
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A Pragmatic Analysis of Fallacies in English Religious Argumentative Discourse
Fallacies are common errors in an argument and they undermine the logic of that argument. They obstruct the process of argumentation since they do not contribute to the resolution in difference in opinion. The current study investigates fallacies
Khawla Shukur Mahmood, Sundus Muhsin Ali
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Some common fallacies in arguments from M/EEG data
Like all humans, M/EEG researchers commit certain fallacies or mistakes in reasoning. This article surveys seven well-known but still common fallacies, including reverse inference, hasty generalization, hasty exclusion, inferring from group to individual,
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Claire Simmons
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"Utrum figura dictionis sit fallacia in dictione. et quod non videtur". A Taxonomic Puzzle or how Medieval Logicians Came to Account for an Odd Question by an Impossible Answer [PDF]
One of the singularities of Latin exegesis of Aristotle’s Sophistici elenchi, is that it arbitrarily brought together two families of fallacies, the «figure of speech» and the «accident», despite the fact that they are on either side of the divide ...
Gazziero, Leone
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Ambiguity in a Dialectical Perspective
The distinction between constitutive and regulative rules is applied to rules for critical discussion that have to do with the use of ambiguous expressions.
Jan Albert van Laar
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Logical Fallacies in EFL Learners' Argumentative Writings
Logical fallacies are common errors in reasoning that will undermine the logic of an argument. In argumentative writing, the presence of logical fallacies such fallacies shows either illegitimate arguments or irrelevant points, and are often identified ...
Niamika El Khoiri, Utami Widiati
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A Critical Discussion Game for Prohibiting Fallacies [PDF]
The study of fallacies is at the heart of argumentation studies. In response to Hamblin’s devastating critique of the state of the theory of fallacies in 1970, both formal dialectical and informal approaches to fallacies developed.
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