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Exemple historique et argumentation : autour de la reconnaissance du massacre du 17 octobre 1961
Argumentation et Analyse du Discours, 2016 This paper analyzes a corpus of readers’ comments published in newspapers’ talkbacks. The corpus involves the readers’ responses to the October 17th 2012 press release in which President Hollande acknowledged the massacre of Algerian demonstrators that ...
Paola Paissa
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, 2017 This paper reveals two fallacies in Turing's undecidability proof of first-order logic (FOL), namely, (i) an 'extensional fallacy': from the fact that a sentence is an instance of a provable FOL formula, it is inferred that a meaningful sentence is ...
Lampert, Timm
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The Sunk Cost "Fallacy" Is Not a Fallacy
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2019 Business and Economics textbooks warn against committing the Sunk Cost Fallacy: you, rationally, shouldn’t let unrecoverable costs influence your current decisions. In this paper, I argue that this isn’t, in general, correct.
Ryan Doody
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Mitigating tough times? How material self‐interest influences citizens' welfare state behavior
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract It is a long‐standing view that citizens support the welfare state because it provides insurance against future income losses. However, existing studies have struggled to isolate the effect of future‐oriented material self‐interest from normative and political predispositions.
Matias Engdal Christensen
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The Fallacy of Treating the Ad Baculum as a Fallacy
Informal Logic, 1999 The ad baculum is not a fallacy in an argument, but is offered instead of an argument to put an end to further argument. This claim is the basis for criticizing Michael Wreen's "neo-traditionalism," which yields misreadings of supposed cases of the ad ...
Don S. Levi
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Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates whether prior exposure to natural disasters influenced individual compliance with non‐pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), specifically lockdown measures, during the Corona Virus Infectious Disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic. Focusing on the Marche region of Italy, which experienced a severe earthquake in 2016, we exploit
Vincenzo Alfano +2 more
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Without Qualification: An Inquiry Into the Secundum Quid
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2014 In this paper I will consider several interpretations of the fallacy of secundum quid as it is given by Aristotle in the Sophistical Refutations and argue that they do not work, one reason for which is that they all imply that the fallacy depends on ...
Botting David
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The Distinction and Relationship between Ontology and Epistemology
Politikon, 2014 In the social sciences, a distinction is generally drawn between ontology and epistemology, usually accompanied by the assumption that some relationship exists between ontology and epistemology. In this regard several issues arise.
Sarita-Louise Kant
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The Thomistic Conception of Natural Law: Does It Commit the Naturalistic Fallacy? [PDF]
, 2011 Does Thomistic Natural Law theory commit the naturalistic fallacy? Ralph McInerny seems to think that Thomistic Natural Law, as Thomas Aquinas himself articulates it, escapes any potentially defeating criticism derived from the Naturalistic fallacy as ...
Owen, Maria M
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Fifty years of killing and letting die: On the limits of philosophical bioethics
Bioethics, EarlyView.Abstract In 1975, The New England Journal of Medicine published James Rachels' article ‘Active and Passive Euthanasia’. The argumentative method that Rachels introduced, the Bare Difference Argument (also known as the Contrast Strategy), became one of the most widely used tools in ethical reasoning.
Joona Räsänen, Matti Häyry
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