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Without Qualification: An Inquiry Into the Secundum Quid
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2014 In this paper I will consider several interpretations of the fallacy of secundum quid as it is given by Aristotle in the Sophistical Refutations and argue that they do not work, one reason for which is that they all imply that the fallacy depends on ...
Botting David
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 more general conclusion category is considered stronger than a generalization to a specific conclusion category nested within the more general set. Such inferences violate rational norms and are part of the reasoning fallacy literature that provides ...
Peipeng eLiang +6 more
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The Gambler's Fallacy and Gender [PDF]
The “gambler’s fallacy” is the false belief that a random event is less likely to occur if the event has occurred recently. Such beliefs are false if the onset of events is in fact independent of previous events.
Suetens, S., Tyran, J.R.
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In Defence of Virtue: The Legitimacy of Agent-Based Argument Appraisal
Informal Logic, 2014 Several authors have recently begun to apply virtue theory to argumentation. Critics of this programme have suggested that no such theory can avoid committing an ad hominem fallacy.
Andrew Aberdein
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Exemple historique et argumentation : autour de la reconnaissance du massacre du 17 octobre 1961
Argumentation et Analyse du Discours, 2016 This paper analyzes a corpus of readers’ comments published in newspapers’ talkbacks. The corpus involves the readers’ responses to the October 17th 2012 press release in which President Hollande acknowledged the massacre of Algerian demonstrators that ...
Paola Paissa
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[Review of] Gretchen M. Bataille and Kathleen M. Sands. American Indian Women: A Guide to Research [PDF]
, 1992 This much needed resource is an annotated bibliography of nearly sixteen hundred works in print and on film or video. As the authors note in the Introduction, the common fallacy is that there is little available research -- either of historic or ...
Kasee, Cynthia R.
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Predicting Lotto Numbers [PDF]
We investigate the “law of small numbers” using a unique panel data set on lotto gambling. Because we can track individual players over time, we can measure how they react to outcomes of recent lotto drawings. We can therefore test whether they behave as
Claus Bjørn Jørgensen +2 more
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The Fallacy of Treating the Ad Baculum as a Fallacy
Informal Logic, 1999 The ad baculum is not a fallacy in an argument, but is offered instead of an argument to put an end to further argument. This claim is the basis for criticizing Michael Wreen's "neo-traditionalism," which yields misreadings of supposed cases of the ad ...
Don S. Levi
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Biased Probability Judgment: Evidence of Incidence and Relationship to Economic Outcomes from a Representative Sample [PDF]
Many economic decisions involve a substantial amount of uncertainty, and therefore crucially depend on how individuals process probabilistic information.
Dohmen, Thomas +4 more
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, 2017 This paper reveals two fallacies in Turing's undecidability proof of first-order logic (FOL), namely, (i) an 'extensional fallacy': from the fact that a sentence is an instance of a provable FOL formula, it is inferred that a meaningful sentence is ...
Lampert, Timm
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