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A characterization of the one-sidedness fallacy within the framework of the cognitive distortions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In this paper, I propose an accurate description of the cognitive process involved in the one-sidedness fallacy, a widespread type of fallacy. I describe first several characterizations of the one-sidedness fallacy, that are either inductive or deductive,
Franceschi, Dr Paul
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The Cogent Reasoning Model of Informal Fallacies

open access: yesInformal Logic, 1999
An infonnal fallacy is a reasoning error with three features: the reasoning employs an implicit cogent pattern; the fallacy results from one or more false premises; there is culpable ignorance or deception associated with the falsity of the premises.
Daniel N. Boone
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“The El Greco Fallacy” Fallacy

open access: yesJAMA Ophthalmology, 2014
To what extent does an artist's work represent his or her perceptual world, and to what extent can attributes of his or her work be ascribed to sensory defects? These issues lie at the center of a conjecture more than a century old, which has been termed the El Greco fallacy.
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The One Fallacy Theory

open access: yesInformal Logic, 1995
My One Fallacy theory says there is only one fallacy: equivocation, or playing on an ambiguity. In this paper I explain how this theory arose from rnetaphilosophical concerns. And I contrast this theory with purely logical, dialectical, and psychological
Lawrence H. Powers
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The Fallacy of the Homuncular Fallacy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
A leading theoretical framework for naturalistic explanation of mind holds that we explain the mind by positing progressively "stupider" capacities ("homunculi") until the mind is "discharged" by means of capacities that are not intelligent at all.
Figdor, Carrie
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A Comment on \u27Does the Aggregate Demand Curve Suffer from the Fallacy of Composition\u27 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Commentary on Does the Aggregate Demand Curve Suffer From the Fallacy of Composition, by Ira Saltz, Pat Cantrell, and Joseph Horton, is ...
Kyer, Ben L., Maggs, Gary E
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Citations: Indicators of Quality? The Impact Fallacy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We argue that citation is a composed indicator: short-term citations can be considered as currency at the research front, whereas long-term citations can contribute to the codification of knowledge claims into concept symbols.
Bornmann, Lutz   +3 more
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A Response to McMurtry's System of Fallacy in the Media

open access: yesInformal Logic, 1992
In the Fall 1988 issue of Informal Logic, John McMurtry suggests that the current mass communication system "obstructs and deforms our thinking and our reasoning by a general system of deception" (p. 133).
Walter Ulrich
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Losses and External Outcomes Interact to Produce the Gambler's Fallacy. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
When making serial predictions in a binary decision task, there is a clear tendency to assume that after a series of the same external outcome (e.g., heads in a coin flip), the next outcome will be the opposing one (e.g., tails), even when the outcomes ...
Julia A Mossbridge   +2 more
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ESÎRÜDDİN EL-EBHERÎ’NİN MUĞALATA’YA (SAFSATA) BAKIŞI

open access: yesİslami İlimler Dergisi, 2010
Sophisme, according to al-Abharî, is a syllogism consisting of incorrect propositions. These propositions are fallacy and deceptive. One approaches these syllogisms to deceive the other people consciously or unconsciously.
Kamil Kömürcü
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