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The gambler's fallacy fallacy (fallacy)

Journal of Risk Research, 2016
The gambler's fallacy is the irrational belief that prior outcomes in a series of events affect the probability of a future outcome, even though the events in question are independent and identically distributed. In this paper, we argue that in the standard account of the gambler's fallacy, the gambler's fallacy fallacy can arise: The irrational belief
Kristiansen, Silje, Kovic, Marko
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On Abduction and Interpretation

Crítica, 2019
Here, I focus on deviations of intent, from that expressed by the standard or ordinary use of language, in instances where abductive reasoning plays a necessary role.
Antonio Duarte
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Ignoring Qualifications as a Pragmatic Fallacy: Enrichments and Their Use for Manipulating Commitments

Languages, 2022
The fallacy of ignoring qualifications, or secundum quid et simpliciter, is a deceptive strategy that is pervasive in argumentative dialogues, discourses, and discussions.
Fabrizio Macagno
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On equivocation [PDF]

, 2003
I offer an analysis of equivocation which shows it not to be a fallacy.
Stoneham, T
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The Lord Scroop Fallacy

Informal Logic, 2000
In this paper I identify a fallacy. The fallacy is worth noting for practical and theoretical reasons. First, the rampant occurrences ofthis fallacy-especially at moments calling for careful thought-indicate that it is more pernicious to clear thinking ...
Herman E. Stark
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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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Fallacies in English Department Students’ Claims: A Rhetorical Analysis of Critical Thinking

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora, 2015
: This study focuses on the fallacies found in English department students’ claims of fact, value and policy. It employs qualitative design as the object is the real reflection of critical thinking in the form of writing to understand the fallacies ...
Rohmani Nur Indah, Agung Wiranata Kusuma
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Deisidaimonia: The Hellenistic concept of superstition [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual
This paper attempts to reexamine the notion of superstition in a concrete historical period: from the moment it first appeared in the early Hellenistic period (and named deisidemony, deisidaimonίa) till the Early Roman Empire, when this original meaning ...
Dželebdžić Dejan
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Did Jesus Commit a Fallacy?

Informal Logic, 1995
Jesus has been accused of committing a fallacy (of denying the antecedent) at John 8:47. Careful analysis of this text (1) reveals a hitherto unrecognized valid form of argument which can superficially look like the predicate-logic analogue of denying ...
Aaron Ben-Zeev
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Spengler's List: Screenwriting, the Wilderness and the Civilising Death of the Arts [PDF]

, 1994
A lament upon the dying of the art of screenwriting, alongside the other 'liberal arts', provoked by the pondering of two texts: Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West and John Livingston's The Fallacy of Wildlife ...
Cameron, Evan Wm.
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