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Argumentation, 1987
Several of the so-called “fallacies” in Aristotle are not in fact mistaken inference-types, but mistakes or breaches of rules in the questioning games which were practiced in the Academy and in the Lyceum. Hence the entire Aristotelian theory of “fallacies” ought to be studied by reference to the author's interrogative model of inquiry, based on his ...
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Several of the so-called “fallacies” in Aristotle are not in fact mistaken inference-types, but mistakes or breaches of rules in the questioning games which were practiced in the Academy and in the Lyceum. Hence the entire Aristotelian theory of “fallacies” ought to be studied by reference to the author's interrogative model of inquiry, based on his ...
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WIREs Cognitive Science, 2016
The term ‘heritability,’ as it is used today in human behavioral genetics, is one of the most misleading in the history of science. Contrary to popular belief, the measurable heritability of a trait does not tell us how ‘genetically inheritable’ that trait is.
David S, Moore, David, Shenk
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The term ‘heritability,’ as it is used today in human behavioral genetics, is one of the most misleading in the history of science. Contrary to popular belief, the measurable heritability of a trait does not tell us how ‘genetically inheritable’ that trait is.
David S, Moore, David, Shenk
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Are LLMs Good Zero-Shot Fallacy Classifiers?
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language ProcessingFallacies are defective arguments with faulty reasoning. Detecting and classifying them is a crucial NLP task to prevent misinformation, manipulative claims, and biased decisions.
Fengjun Pan +3 more
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The Pastoral Fallacy: An Editorial Fallacy?
Pediatrics, 1973I am astounded by your choice of "The Pastoral Fallacy" as a filler on page 589 of the October issue of Pediatrics!1 Why you have chosen to reprint a 1967 comment by Dornhorst and Hunter which reveals a total lack of understanding of our current concepts of comprehensive care in pediatrics is beyond my comprehension.
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Is the Gambler’s Fallacy Really a Fallacy?
The Journal of Gambling Business and Economics, 2006The behavior known as the gambler’s fallacy is exhibited when gamblers increase their wager after a series of losses. The conventional interpretation of this behavior is that, after a series of losses, the gambler views the probability of winning as increasing.
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The cost performance of transportation projects: The fallacy of the Planning Fallacy account
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2019Delivering transportation projects to their budgeted cost remains a challenge for many governments worldwide. An issue that has hindered progress being made to address this problem has been the availability of empirical data that reflects the changing ...
P. Love +3 more
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Semantics and the ‘etymological fallacy’ fallacy
Language Sciences, 1998L'A. se penche sur le role controverse de l'etymologie dans l'histoire de la linguistique. Alors que la semantique moderne celebre sa liberation par rapport a l'histoire, apres la frenesie etymologique du 19 e siecle, l'A. tente d'expliquer cette attitude frenetique et se demande si elle ne conduit pas a reduire la linguistique au role de critique ...
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The fallacy of the Pcrit – are there more useful alternatives?
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2018Pcrit – generally defined as the PO2 below which the animal can no longer maintain a stable rate of O2 consumption (ṀO2), such that ṀO2 becomes dependent upon PO2 – provides a single number into which a vast amount of experimental effort has been ...
C. Wood
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IEEE transactions on engineering management, 2019
The planning fallacy is at play in projects when optimism bias and/or strategic misrepresentation are present. We examine the cost performance of approximately US$ 6.5 billion worth of social infrastructure projects that were procured in Hong Kong and ...
P. Love, Lavagnon A. Ika, M. Sing
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The planning fallacy is at play in projects when optimism bias and/or strategic misrepresentation are present. We examine the cost performance of approximately US$ 6.5 billion worth of social infrastructure projects that were procured in Hong Kong and ...
P. Love, Lavagnon A. Ika, M. Sing
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How fallacious is the consequence fallacy?
Philosophical Studies, 2012Timothy Williamson argues against the tactic of criticizing confidence in a theory by identifying a logical consequence of the theory whose probability is not raised by the evidence. He dubs it “the consequence fallacy”. In this paper, we will show that Williamson’s formulation of the tactic in question is ambiguous.
Wai-hung Wong, Zanja Yudell
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