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Coping with uncertainty in public health: the use of heuristics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
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]

open access: yes, 2018
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

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2008
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
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifying Aristotle’s Fallacies

open access: yesMathematics, 2020
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
doaj   +1 more source

Emerging infectious diseases: coping with uncertainty [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
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
core   +1 more source

Informal logic and fallacies in the field of history

open access: yesTurkish History Education Journal, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Gaming Systems

open access: yesA Peer-Reviewed Journal About, 2019
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
doaj   +1 more source

The inverse conjunction fallacy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
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.
core   +1 more source

Educating for Intellectual Virtue: a critique from action guidance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
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]

open access: yes, 2009
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
core   +4 more sources

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