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The Murky Distinction Between Self-Concept and Self-Efficacy: Beware of Lurking Jingle-Jangle Fallacies

open access: yesJournal of Educational Psychology, 2019
This study extends the classic constructive dialogue/debate between self-concept and self-efficacy researchers (Marsh, Roche, Pajares, & Miller, 1997) regarding the distinctions between these 2 constructs.
Herbert W. Marsh   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Chinese Studies on Informal Logic and Critical Thinking

open access: yesAsian 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
doaj   +1 more source

A Critical Discussion Game for Prohibiting Fallacies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
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.
Budzynska, Katarzyna   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Classification of Fallacies of Relevance

open access: yesInformal 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
doaj   +1 more source

‘Ideological’ fallacies1

open access: yesKoers : 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
doaj   +1 more source

Between fallacy and feasibility? Dealing with the risk of ecological fallacies in the quantitative study of protest mobilization and conflict [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In recent years, the quantitative study of conflict has increasingly focused on small-scale and/or localized conflicts in the developing world. In this paper, we analyze and critically reflect upon a major methodological shortcoming of many studies in ...
Demarest, Leila   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Emerging infectious diseases: coping with uncertainty [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The world’s scientific community must be in a state of constant readiness to address the threat posed by newly emerging infectious diseases. Whether the disease in question is SARS in humans or BSE in animals, scientists must be able to put into action ...
Cummings, L
core   +1 more source

The Linguistic Formulation of Fallacies Matters: The Case of Causal Connectives

open access: yesArgumentation: an international journal on reasoning, 2020
While the role of discourse connectives has long been acknowledged in argumentative frameworks, these approaches often take a coarse-grained approach to connectives, treating them as a unified group having similar effects on argumentation.
Jennifer Schumann   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A quantum theoretical explanation for probability judgment errors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
A quantum probability model is introduced and used to explain human probability judgment errors including the conjunction, disjunction, inverse, and conditional fallacies, as well as unpacking effects and partitioning effects.
Busemeyer, J. R.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Before Name-Calling: Dynamics and Triggers of Ad Hominem Fallacies in Web Argumentation [PDF]

open access: yesNorth American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018
Arguing without committing a fallacy is one of the main requirements of an ideal debate. But even when debating rules are strictly enforced and fallacious arguments punished, arguers often lapse into attacking the opponent by an ad hominem argument.
Ivan Habernal   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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