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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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Explaining High Conjunction Fallacy Rates: The Probability Theory Plus Noise Account

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2017
Fintan Costello, Paul Watts
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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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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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Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2020
The replication (replicability, reproducibility) crisis in social psychology and clinical medicine arises from the fact that many apparently well-confirmed experimental results are subsequently overturned by studies that aim to replicate the original ...
A. Bird
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Moving Beyond the Planning Fallacy: The Emergence of a New Principle of Project Behavior

IEEE transactions on engineering management, 2020
The question—what explains cost overruns and benefit shortfalls—remains an important conversation in project management. Two theoretical principles, the Planning Fallacy and the Hiding Hand, shed light on project behavior, that is how projects take ...
Lavagnon A. Ika, P. Love, J. Pinto
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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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A NICE fallacy [PDF]

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2007
A response is given to the claim by Claxton and Culyer, who stated that the policies of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) do not evaluate patients rather than treatments. The argument is made that the use of values such as quality of life and life-years is ethically dubious when used to choose which patients ought to ...
Quigley, Muireann, Harris, John
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