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The Authority of the Fallacies Approach to Argument Evaluation

open access: yesInformal 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

open access: yesAdvances 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Belief and Negation

open access: yesInformal 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

open access: yesArgumentation 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

open access: yesDiabetes 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Does Action vs. State Orientation Really Matter in The Susceptibility to Sunk Cost Fallacy? A Conceptual Replication Study

open access: yesStudia Psychologica, 2021
The theory of action versus state orientation suggests that state-oriented people are more susceptible to sunk cost fallacy than action-oriented people because they ruminate about past costs and are reluctant to change their course of actions.
Miroslava Galasová, Matúš Grežo
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Lightening up on the Ad Hominem

open access: yesInformal 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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Strategy can no Longer Ignore Planetary Boundaries: A Call for Tackling Strategy's Ecological Fallacy

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies
The field of Strategy has its origins in Business Policy, which emphasized how firms could pursue important social aims that individuals and governments could not pursue otherwise.
P. Bansal   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Denying the Antecedent as a Legitimate Argumentative Strategy: A Dialectical Model

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2004
The standard account of denying the antecedent (DA) is that it is a deductively invalid form of argument, and that, in a conditional argument, to argue from the falsity of the antecedent to the falsity of the consequent is always fallacious.
David Godden
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Revisiting Target‐Aware de novo Molecular Generation with TarPass: Between Rational Design and Texas Sharpshooter

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
TarPass provides a rigorous benchmark for target‐aware de novo molecular generation by jointly evaluating protein‐ligand interactions, molecular plausibility, and drug‐likeness on 18 well‐studied targets. Results show that current models often fail to consistently surpass random baseline in target‐specific enrichment, while post hoc multi‐tier virtual ...
Rui Qin   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

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