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"Utrum figura dictionis sit fallacia in dictione. et quod non videtur". A Taxonomic Puzzle or how Medieval Logicians Came to Account for an Odd Question by an Impossible Answer [PDF]
, 2016 One of the singularities of Latin exegesis of Aristotle’s Sophistici elenchi, is that it arbitrarily brought together two families of fallacies, the «figure of speech» and the «accident», despite the fact that they are on either side of the divide ...
Gazziero, Leone
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Emerging infectious diseases: coping with uncertainty [PDF]
, 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
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The Philosophy of Error and Liberty of Thought: J.S. Mill on Logical Fallacies
Informal 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
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Quantifying Aristotle’s Fallacies
Mathematics, 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
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Coping with uncertainty in public health: the use of heuristics [PDF]
, 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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Informal logic and fallacies in the field of history
Turkish 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
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The inverse conjunction fallacy [PDF]
, 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.
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A 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
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Educating for Intellectual Virtue: a critique from action guidance [PDF]
, 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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Leibniz's Laws of Continuity and Homogeneity
, 2012 We explore Leibniz's understanding of the differential calculus, and argue that his methods were more coherent than is generally recognized. The foundations of the historical infinitesimal calculus of Newton and Leibniz have been a target of numerous ...
Katz, Mikhail G., Sherry, David
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