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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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The Speech Act Fallacy Fallacy [PDF]
John Searle has charged R.M. Hare's prescriptivist analysis of the meaning of ‘good,’ ‘ought’ and the other evaluative words with committing what he calls the ‘speech act fallacy.’ This is a fallacy which Searle thinks is committed not only by Hare's analysis, but by any analysis which attributes to a word the function of indicating that a particular ...
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Fallacies in Judicial Interpretation
This thesis concerns fallacies in judicial interpretation. The central contention of this thesis is that judges commit certain fallacies when interpreting language and that it is possible to detect such fallacies and arrive at alternative, non-fallacious
Hutchison, Andrew Geoffrey +1 more
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What Future Lies Ahead for Circular Business Models Research?
ABSTRACT The circular economy—wherein waste is designed out, materials are circulated and nature is regenerated—has reached global recognition. From policy to business circles, it is seen as a viable strategy to address multiple societal grand challenges—including climate change and depletion of finite natural resources—and build a more resilient ...
Roberta de Angelis, Kerry Hudson
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Two logical fallacies seem to be related to cryptocurrency advertisements: the Bandwagon Fallacy and Argument by Prestigious Jargon. A study was performed to determine any influence these fallacies have on the amount of money invested.
Hornek, Sean
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Abstract Objective To assess age‐related differences of community, social vulnerability associations with care and prognosis among those with nasopharyngeal carcinomas. Study Design Retrospective Cohort. Settings United States. Methods This retrospective cohort study on 12,480 NPC‐patients from 1975 to 2017 linked with 15 county‐level vulnerability ...
Eric Pan +9 more
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Intrinsic value and its commitments: a response to the Conguillío Statement
The Conguillío Statement asserts that ecosystems possess intrinsic value and presents this claim as part of the normative responsibilities of ecologists. Although such language is common in ecology, it is rarely accompanied by a sustained philosophical defense. This paper clarifies what would be required for the claim to succeed.
Jonathan A. Newman
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Is petitio principii a petitio principii?
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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Plant hybridization is increasingly recognized as an important evolutionary process, and a deeper understanding of hybridization is necessary for its application to agriculture, conservation, and ecological solutions. Here, we assess correlates of hybridization in the megadiverse and societally important family Asteraceae and how and where hybrids have
Leandra O′Connell +2 more
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On the map-territory fallacy fallacy
23 pages. Note that this manuscript was changed substantially and has been replaced by arXiv:2406.11630; this version should be considered ...
Ramstead, Maxwell J D +2 more
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