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Is the “Ecological Fallacy” a Fallacy?

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, 2000
Ecological studies of health effects due to agent exposure are generally considered to be a blunt instrument of scientific investigation, unfit to determine the “true” exposure-effect relationship for an agent. Based on this widely accepted tenet, ecological studies of the correlation between the local air concentration of radon and the local lung ...
Fritz A. Seiler, Joseph L. Alvarez
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The “is-ought fallacy” fallacy

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2011
AbstractMere facts about how the world is cannot determine how we ought to think or behave. Elqayam & Evans (E&E) argue that this “is-ought fallacy” undercuts the use of rational analysis in explaining how people reason, by ourselves and with others. But this presumed application of the “is-ought” fallacy is itself fallacious. Rational analysis
Mike Oaksford, Nick Chater
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The fallacy of fallacies

Argumentation, 1987
Several of the so-called “fallacies” in Aristotle are not in fact mistaken inference-types, but mistakes or breaches of rules in the questioning games which were practiced in the Academy and in the Lyceum. Hence the entire Aristotelian theory of “fallacies” ought to be studied by reference to the author's interrogative model of inquiry, based on his ...
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The Heritability Fallacy

WIREs Cognitive Science, 2016
The term ‘heritability,’ as it is used today in human behavioral genetics, is one of the most misleading in the history of science. Contrary to popular belief, the measurable heritability of a trait does not tell us how ‘genetically inheritable’ that trait is.
David S, Moore, David, Shenk
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The Pastoral Fallacy: An Editorial Fallacy?

Pediatrics, 1973
I am astounded by your choice of "The Pastoral Fallacy" as a filler on page 589 of the October issue of Pediatrics!1 Why you have chosen to reprint a 1967 comment by Dornhorst and Hunter which reveals a total lack of understanding of our current concepts of comprehensive care in pediatrics is beyond my comprehension.
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Is the Gambler’s Fallacy Really a Fallacy?

The Journal of Gambling Business and Economics, 2006
The behavior known as the gambler’s fallacy is exhibited when gamblers increase their wager after a series of losses.  The conventional interpretation of this behavior is that, after a series of losses, the gambler views the probability of winning as increasing.
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Which of the fallacies are fallacies of relevance?

Argumentation, 1992
This paper looks around among the major traditional fallacies — centering mainly around the so-called “gang of eighteen” — to discuss which of them should properly be classified as fallacies of relevance. The paper argues that four of these fallacies are fallacies primarily because they are failures of relevance in argumentation, while others are ...
Douglas N Walton, Walton Douglas N
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Semantics and the ‘etymological fallacy’ fallacy

Language Sciences, 1998
L'A. se penche sur le role controverse de l'etymologie dans l'histoire de la linguistique. Alors que la semantique moderne celebre sa liberation par rapport a l'histoire, apres la frenesie etymologique du 19 e siecle, l'A. tente d'expliquer cette attitude frenetique et se demande si elle ne conduit pas a reduire la linguistique au role de critique ...
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How fallacious is the consequence fallacy?

Philosophical Studies, 2012
Timothy Williamson argues against the tactic of criticizing confidence in a theory by identifying a logical consequence of the theory whose probability is not raised by the evidence. He dubs it “the consequence fallacy”. In this paper, we will show that Williamson’s formulation of the tactic in question is ambiguous.
Wai-hung Wong, Zanja Yudell
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