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The gambler's fallacy fallacy (fallacy)
Journal of Risk Research, 2016 The gambler's fallacy is the irrational belief that prior outcomes in a series of events affect the probability of a future outcome, even though the events in question are independent and identically distributed. In this paper, we argue that in the standard account of the gambler's fallacy, the gambler's fallacy fallacy can arise: The irrational belief
Kristiansen, Silje, Kovic, Marko
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The Coherence of Hamblin’s Fallacies
Informal Logic, 2011 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
مجلة الآداب, 2022 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
NeuroImage, 2021 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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Learning about informal fallacies and the detection of fake news: An experimental intervention.
PLoS ONE, 2023 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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Logical Fallacies in EFL Learners' Argumentative Writings
Dinamika Ilmu, 2017 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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Ambiguity in a Dialectical Perspective
Informal Logic, 2001 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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Journal of Medical Ethics, 2007 A response is given to the claim by Claxton and Culyer, who stated that the policies of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) do not evaluate patients rather than treatments. The argument is made that the use of values such as quality of life and life-years is ethically dubious when used to choose which patients ought to ...
Quigley, Muireann, Harris, John
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Classification of Fallacies of Relevance
Informal Logic, 2004 Fallacies of relevance, a major category of informal fallacies, include two that could be called pure fallacies of relevance-the wrong conclusion (ignoratio elenchi, wrong conclusion, missing the point) fallacy and the red herring digression, diversion ...
Douglas Walton
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Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 1994 The aim of this paper is to extend the critique which informal logic employs against fallacious reasoning to a critique of ideological argumentation.
Pieter van Veuren
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