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Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2018 The paper discusses the nature and functioning of argumentum ad misericordiam, a well-known but less theorised type of argument. A monograph by D. Walton (1997) offers an overview of definitions of misericordia (which he eventually translates as ‘pity’),
Könczöl Miklós
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Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya, 2019 This article investigates the phenomena of electoral politics and culture of social media in the context of Indonesian law and society through a case study of Jakarta Gubernatorial Election in 2017.
Tanius Sebastian
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Intellectual humility and argumentation [PDF]
, 2020 In this chapter I argue that intellectual humility is related to argumentation in several distinct but mutually supporting ways. I begin by drawing connections between humility and two topics of long-standing importance to the evaluation of informal ...
Aberdein, Andrew
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The Fallacy of Nuclear Primacy [PDF]
, 2006 "The United States is easily deterred by any nuclear armed state, even by the most primitive and diminutive of nuclear arsenals." Bruce G. Blair is the President of the World Security Institute.
Bruce G. Blair, Chen Yali
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The Speech Act Fallacy Fallacy [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1982 John Searle has charged R.M. Hare's prescriptivist analysis of the meaning of ‘good,’ ‘ought’ and the other evaluative words with committing what he calls the ‘speech act fallacy.’ This is a fallacy which Searle thinks is committed not only by Hare's analysis, but by any analysis which attributes to a word the function of indicating that a particular ...
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The Paradox of Moralistic Fallacy: A Case against the Dangerous Knowledge
Teorie vědy, 2019 In this article, the concept of moralistic fallacy introduced by B. D. Davis is elaborated on in more detail. The main features of this fallacy are discussed, and its general form is presented. The moralistic fallacy might have some undesirable outcomes.
Tomáš Ondráček
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, 2001 Wesley Salmon and Michael Martin argue that scientific considerations about the order in the universe justify atheism. After sketching Salmon’s argument, I examine the nature of begging the question and argue that Martin takes a sufficient condition ...
Shalkowski, S.A.
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Informal Logic, 1999 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 ...
Michael Levin
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The existence of a ‘bidding market’ is commonly cited as a reason to tolerate the creation or maintenance of highly concentrated markets. We discuss three erroneous arguments to that effect: the ‘consultants’ fallacy’ that ‘market power is impossible ...
Paul Klemperer
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