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Informal fallacies as cognitive heuristics in public health reasoning [PDF]
, 2014 The public must make assessments of a range of health-related issues. However, these assessments require scientific knowledge which is often lacking or ineffectively utilized by the public.
Louise Cummings +2 more
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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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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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35. Logic: Common Fallacies [PDF]
, 2016 In the last chapter we discussed passages where bright individuals with PhDs violated common fallacies. Even the brightest among us fall for them. As a result, we should be ever vigilant to keep our critical guard up, looking for fallacious reasoning in ...
Miller, Steve, Miller, Cherie
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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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Chinese Studies on Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
Asian Studies, 2022 This article traces the developmental trajectory of informal logic and critical thinking in mainland China. It surveys the current developmental situation relating to their curricula, the establishment of teaching material, translations of leading works
Hongzhi Wu
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The fallacy of the homuncular fallacy [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2018 A leading theoretical framework for naturalistic explanation of mind holds that we explain the mind by positing progressively 'stupider' capacities ('homunculi') until the mind is 'discharged' by means of capacities that are not intelligent at all. The so-called homuncular fallacy involves violating this procedure by positing the same capacities at sub-
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A reflective thinking model based on the phenomenological reading theory to develop the hermeneutical interpretation of EFL secondary language school students [PDF]
Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Tarbiyyẗ Ǧamiʿaẗ Banhā, 2018 The purpose of this study was to develop EFl second grade secondary language school students' hermeneutical interpretation skills, determine literary fallacies skills and see their effect on the students' literary attitudes through a reflective thinking ...
Azza El-Marsafy +3 more
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Dismissing the fallacies of childhood eczema management: case scenarios and an overview of best practices [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Eczema or atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common relapsing childhood dermatologic illness. Treatment of AD is primarily topical with emollients and corticosteroid/calcineurin inhibitor, which is efficacious for the majority of patients.
Hon, KL +7 more
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