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Fallacies in Scenario Reasoning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Policy-makers frequently face substantial uncertainties and are required to cope with alternative scenarios that depict possible future developments. This paper argues that scenario reasoning is prone to suffer from characteristic mistakes. Probabilistic
Betz, Gregor
core   +1 more source

Mind the Gaps! Legitimacy and Expectation Misalignments in Sustainability Disclosure: Case Evidence From a Public Forestry Sector Organization

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability disclosure by public sector organizations remains under‐examined, particularly in the forestry and natural resources sector, where organizations combine strong public accountability obligations with operations in environmentally sensitive ecosystems.
Dimitra Panori   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

“The El Greco Fallacy” Fallacy

open access: yesJAMA Ophthalmology, 2014
To what extent does an artist's work represent his or her perceptual world, and to what extent can attributes of his or her work be ascribed to sensory defects? These issues lie at the center of a conjecture more than a century old, which has been termed the El Greco fallacy.
openaire   +2 more sources

After the Climate Assembly: A Mixed Methods Study on the Impacts of Participation on Political Attitudes and Climate Behaviours

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate assemblies are a novel method of public consultation in which quasi randomly selected citizens are brought together to learn about climate change, discuss with their fellow citizens, and recommend solutions to the commissioning body.
Patricia Mockler   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Cogent Reasoning Model of Informal Fallacies Revisited

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2002
The author designed the Reasoning Analysis Test to provide empirical support for the CRM analysis of informal fallacies. While informal, the results provide presumptive evidence that those committing informal fallacies may tacitly reason as predicted by ...
Daniel N. Boone
doaj   +1 more source

Everyone Knows It's a Hoax: The Role of Perceived Descriptive Norms in Conspiracy Beliefs

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT People's belief in conspiracy theories is shaped by social influence processes. This contribution investigated these processes in six studies (total N = 2906) by examining the role of descriptive norms, that is, the perception that others endorse conspiracy theories.
Jan‐Willem van Prooijen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Philosophy of Error and Liberty of Thought: J.S. Mill on Logical Fallacies

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2008
Most recent discussions of John Stuart Mill’s System of Logic (1843) neglect the fifth book concerned with logical fallacies. Mill not only follows the revival of interest in the traditional Aristotelian doctrine of fallacies in Richard Whately and ...
Frederick Rosen
doaj   +1 more source

Egyptologists’ Fallacies: Fallacies Arising from Limited Evidence

open access: yes, 2010
It has been noted that Egyptologists tend to neglect methodology and consequently we are sometimes guilty of logical fallacies in our work. A subset of those fallacies that we tend toward are those fallacies in logic that result from our evidence being ...
John Gee
core   +1 more source

Critically Revisiting the Psychometric Properties of the EDE‐Q and Its Short Forms: Is It Time to Move On?

open access: yesEuropean Eating Disorders Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE‐Q) remains the most widely used self‐report measure of eating disorder symptoms, despite concerns regarding its factorial instability, construct redundancy, and local item dependence. Numerous brief versions have been proposed to address these limitations.
Rafael Moreton Alves da Rocha   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

DEFALAC: Automatic Detection and Generation of Fallacies Using Large Language Models Based on Deep Learning

open access: yes, 2023
Our proposed research project focuses on the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to the detection, classification and generation of fallacies.
Enríquez de Salamanca Ros, Fernando   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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