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, 2005 Gerardo Munck has done the field a service by raising fundamental critiques of a broad range of topics in the burgeoning literature on qualitative research methods. In view of the remarkable outpouring of books and articles on these methods in the last decade, it has no doubt been difficult for practitioners of qualitative methods, and even for ...
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PLoS ONE, 2019 Continuing investing in a failing plan (i.e., the sunk-cost fallacy) is a common error that people are inclined to make when making decisions. It is impossible to get resources back that already have been invested.
Koen A Dijkstra, Ying-Yi Hong
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The Distinction and Relationship between Ontology and Epistemology
Politikon, 2014 In the social sciences, a distinction is generally drawn between ontology and epistemology, usually accompanied by the assumption that some relationship exists between ontology and epistemology. In this regard several issues arise.
Sarita-Louise Kant
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Non-Bayesian Updating : A Theoretical Framework [PDF]
This paper models an agent in an infinite horizon setting who does not update according to Bayes' Rule, and who is self-aware and anticipates her updating behavior when formulating plans. Choice-theoretic axiomatic foundations are provided.
Alvaro Sandroni, Larry G. Epstein
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Gambler's Fallacy: A Gambler's Dilemma [PDF]
, 2018 The gambler’s fallacy, also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy or the fallacy of the maturity of chances, is the mistaken belief that, if something happens more frequently than normal during a given period, it will happen less frequently in the future.
Sthapit, Shreyas
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The Partition Ensemble Fallacy Fallacy
, 2002 The Partition Ensemble Fallacy was recently applied to claim no quantum coherence exists in coherent states produced by lasers. We show that this claim relies on an untestable belief of a particular prior distribution of absolute phase. One's choice for the prior distribution for an unobservable quantity is a matter of `religion'.
Nemoto, Kae, Braunstein, Samuel L.
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Informal Logic, 2000 In this overview article, we first explain what we take informal logic to be, discussing misconceptions and distinguishing our conception of it from competing ones; second, we briefly catalogue recent informal logic research, under 14 headings; third, we
J. Anthony Blair, Ralph H. Johnson
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Ошибки в аргументации: попытки определения и классификации [PDF]
, 2015 This article is devoted to the analysis of informal approaches to defi nition of the notion «fallacy» in the argumentation. The author considers the variants of the defi nition of «fallacy» in pragma-dialectics and in formal dialectics and compared ...
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The Metaphoric Fallacy to a Deductive Inference
Informal Logic, 2010 Our article identifies and describes the metaphoric fallacy to a deductive inference (MFDI) that is an example of incorrect reasoning along the lines of the false analogy fallacy.
Michael P Berman, Brian A Lightbody
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The Thomistic Conception of Natural Law: Does It Commit the Naturalistic Fallacy? [PDF]
, 2011 Does Thomistic Natural Law theory commit the naturalistic fallacy? Ralph McInerny seems to think that Thomistic Natural Law, as Thomas Aquinas himself articulates it, escapes any potentially defeating criticism derived from the Naturalistic fallacy as ...
Owen, Maria M
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