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Coping with uncertainty in public health: the use of heuristics [PDF]
The observation that experts and lay people use cognitive shortcuts or heuristics to arrive at judgements about complex problems is certainly not new.
Bond +7 more
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A probabilistic analysis of argument cogency [PDF]
This paper offers a probabilistic treatment of the conditions for argument cogency as endorsed in informal logic: acceptability, relevance, and sufficiency.
A Corner +41 more
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The Philosophy of Error and Liberty of Thought: J.S. Mill on Logical Fallacies
Most recent discussions of John Stuart Mill’s System of Logic (1843) neglect the fifth book concerned with logical fallacies. Mill not only follows the revival of interest in the traditional Aristotelian doctrine of fallacies in Richard Whately and ...
Frederick Rosen
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Quantifying Aristotle’s Fallacies
Fallacies are logically false statements which are often considered to be true. In the “Sophistical Refutations”, the last of his six works on Logic, Aristotle identified the first thirteen of today’s many known fallacies and divided them into linguistic
Evangelos Athanassopoulos +1 more
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Emerging infectious diseases: coping with uncertainty [PDF]
The world’s scientific community must be in a state of constant readiness to address the threat posed by newly emerging infectious diseases. Whether the disease in question is SARS in humans or BSE in animals, scientists must be able to put into action ...
Cummings, L
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Informal logic and fallacies in the field of history
It is not possible to talk about a research field, a study discipline in which there is no logic, correct thinking, argumentation, deduction, and reasoning.
Fatma Gültekin
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The ubiquitous adoption of mobile computing devices has implicated all of us in a techno-social system of interaction dominated by the codified and computational logic of the game.
Minka Stoyanova
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The inverse conjunction fallacy [PDF]
If people believe that some property is true of all members of a class such as sofas, then they should also believe that the same property is true of all members of a conjunctively defined subset of that class such as uncomfortable handmade sofas.
Hampton, J. A., Jonsson, M. L.
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Educating for Intellectual Virtue: a critique from action guidance [PDF]
Virtue epistemology is among the dominant influences in mainstream epistemology today. An important commitment of one strand of virtue epistemology – responsibilist virtue epistemology (e.g., Montmarquet 1993; Zagzebski 1996; Battaly 2006; Baehr 2011 ...
Carter, J. Adam +2 more
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Ludics and its Applications to natural Language Semantics [PDF]
Proofs, in Ludics, have an interpretation provided by their counter-proofs, that is the objects they interact with. We follow the same idea by proposing that sentence meanings are given by the counter-meanings they are opposed to in a dialectical ...
A. Ranta +8 more
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