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Current Medicine Research and Practice, 2012 Fallacies are anomalies that considerably reduce the credibility of a report because of inadequate sample, biases, wrong analysis, misinterpretations, errors in representation, etc. Statistical fallacies are common in medical literature.
A Indrayan
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Is petitio principii a petitio principii?
Aufklärung, 2018 In this contribution we focus on the petitio principii fallacy and we review it under the tenets of different typical treatments. Then we submit the claim that petitio principii is indeed fallacious, not because of circularity—as the typical treatments ...
J. Martín Castro-Manzano
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The inverse conjunction fallacy [PDF]
, 2006 If people believe that some property is true of all members of a class such as sofas, then they should also believe that the same property is true of all members of a conjunctively defined subset of that class such as uncomfortable handmade sofas.
Hampton, J. A., Jonsson, M. L.
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Including Harvested Grain Biogenic CO2 to Address a Critical Flaw in Climate Accounting
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The international climate accounting system excludes both the biogenic CO2 sequestered in harvested crops and the biogenic CO2 emissions that occur when grain is digested or burned as biofuel. Despite being described in the literature as a critical flaw in climate accounting all parties within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Richard S. Gray
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Surprisingly Rational: Probability theory plus noise explains biases in judgment
, 2014 The systematic biases seen in people's probability judgments are typically taken as evidence that people do not reason about probability using the rules of probability theory, but instead use heuristics which sometimes yield reasonable judgments and ...
Costello, Fintan, Watts, Paul
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A Normative Theory of Argument Strength
Informal Logic, 2008 In this article, we argue for the general importance of normative theories of argument strength. We also provide some evidence based on our recent work on the fallacies as to why Bayesian probability might, in fact, be able to supply such an account.
Ulrike Hahn, Mike Oaksford
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JOM Forum: Theory Testing Is Theory Generation
Journal of Operations Management, EarlyView.
Mikko Ketokivi +6 more
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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Informal Logic, 2022 An argumentation profile is defined as a methodological instrument for analyzing argumentative discourse considering distinct and interrelated dimensions: the types of argument used, their quality, and the emotions triggered.
Fabrizio Macagno
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Quantum-like models cannot account for the conjunction fallacy [PDF]
, 2016 Human agents happen to judge that a conjunction of two terms is more probable than one of the terms, in contradiction with the rules of classical probabilities—this is the conjunction fallacy.
Boyer-Kassem, Thomas +2 more
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