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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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‘Ideological’ fallacies¹ [PDF]

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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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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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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Are Fallacies Frequent ?

Informal Logic, 2023
This paper provides methodological tools and considers the reasons why it is difficult to address the controversial question, “Are fallacies frequent?” After preliminary remarks on the need to clarify the meaning of both ‘fallacy’ and ‘frequency,’ this ...
Michel Dufour
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Epidemiology of Fallacies

Argumentation
AbstractIn this paper I apply the epidemiological model of the spread of beliefs and how they become cultural representations to the field of fallacies. The model suggests that beliefs tend to replicate as a virus does in a potential epidemic, and those strains that are dominant in a given socio-cultural sphere become cultural representations.
Duarte Calvo, Antonio Jaime
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Fallacies in ethical argumentation on abortion

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2007
This paper represents a case study of the types of fallacies that may occur in the argumentation stage of an ethical dispute over abortion. The theoretical framework I use is the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation (van Eemeren and Grootendorst ...
Simona Mazilu
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Socrates’ Four Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul in the Phaedo: Informal Fallacies, Ambiguities, and Overall Inconsistency

, 2022
In this paper, I argue that none of Socrates’ four arguments for the immortality of the soul can prove it to be immortal. All that the four arguments amount to is an inference to the best explanation. However, this inference to Socrates’ best explanation
Sena, Wesley
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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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The Abuses of Argument: Understanding Fallacies on Toulmin’s Layout of Argument

Informal Logic, 2013
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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