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Reasoning under uncertainty: the role of two informal fallacies in an emerging scientific inquiry [PDF]
, 2002 It is now commonplace in fallacy inquiry for many of the traditional informal fallacies to be viewed as reasonable or non-fallacious modes of argument.
Cummings, L
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The Authority of the Fallacies Approach to Argument Evaluation
Informal Logic, 2010 Popular textbook treatments of the fallacies approach to argument evaluation employ the Adversary Method identified by Janice Moulton (1983) that takes the goal of argumentation to be the defeat of other arguments and that narrows the terms of discourse ...
Catherine Hundleby
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Fact vs Fallacy: The Anti-Vaccine Discussion Reloaded
Advances in Therapy, 2020 In the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-vaccine sentiments have been on the rise, with a recent seminal study on the development of anti-vaccine views in social media even making its way into Nature Communications.
Lucas B. Stolle +6 more
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Informal Logic, 2000 This paper argues for the importance of the distinction between internal and external negation over expressions for belief. The common fallacy is to confuse statement like (1) and (2): (1) John believes that the school is not closed on Tuesday; (2) John ...
Jonathan E. Adler, J. Anthony Blair
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Un lieu pour les figures dans la théorie de l’argumentation
Argumentation et Analyse du Discours, 2009 This paper deals with the treatment of figures of speech in Perelman’s and Olbrechts-Tyteca’s Treatise on Argumentation (TA), and, more broadly, with the place of figures in argumentation theory.
Christian Plantin
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The Fallacy of Average: How Using HbA1c Alone to Assess Glycemic Control Can Be Misleading
Diabetes Care, 2017 HbA1c is a valuable metric for comparing treatment groups in a randomized trial, for assessing glycemic trends in a population over time, or for cross-sectional comparisons of glycemic control in different populations.
R. Beck +4 more
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Contractualism and the Conditional Fallacy [PDF]
, 2014 Most contractualist ethical theories have a subjunctivist structure. This means that they attempt to make sense of right and wrong in terms of a set of principles which would be accepted in some idealized, non-actual circumstances. This makes these views
Suikkanen, Jussi
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Anthropomorphism in AI: hype and fallacy
AI and EthicsThis essay focuses on anthropomorphism as both a form of hype and fallacy. As a form of hype, anthropomorphism is shown to exaggerate AI capabilities and performance by attributing human-like traits to systems that do not possess them.
Adriana Placani
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Lightening up on the Ad Hominem
Informal Logic, 2008 In all three of its manifestations, —abusive, circumstantial and tu quoque—the role of the ad hominem is to raise a doubt about the opposite party’s casemaking bona-fides.Provided that it is both presumptive and provisional, drawing such a conclusion is ...
John Woods
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Journal of Neurology, 2005 Contains fulltext : 48478.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Voermans, N.C. +4 more
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