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Analysis of Argument Strategies of Attack and Cooption: Stock Cases, Formalization, and Argument Reconstruction

open access: yesInformal Logic, 1995
Three common strategies used by informal logicians are considered: (1) the appeal to standard cases, (2) the attempt to partially formalize so-called "informal fallacies," and (3) restatement of arguments in such a way as to make their logical character ...
Aaron Ben-Zeev
doaj   +1 more source

Leibniz's Laws of Continuity and Homogeneity

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

John Locke on Inference and Fallacy, A Re-Appraisal

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2014
John Locke, long associated with the “standard” approach to fallacies and the “logical” approach to valid inference, had both logical and dialectical reasons for favoring certain proofs and denigrating others. While the logical approach to argumentation
Mark Garrett Longaker
doaj   +3 more sources

Logic and Fallacy [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Psychiatry, 2015
Evidence Based Medicine begins with anecdotal observation and empirical experience. Or anecdotal observation and empirical experience are the bases for evidence based medicine. To insist rhetorically on “evidence” first before initiating any new potentially beneficial treatment is to think in the box and impede innovation and progress. There would have
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Digital Pseudo-Identification in the Post-Truth Era: Exploring Logical Fallacies in the Mainstream Media Coverage of the COVID-19 Vaccines

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2023
Because of China’s new wave of COVID-19 in May 2023, the issue of tackling COVID-19 misinformation remains relevant. Based on Lippmann’s theory of public opinion and agenda setting theory, this article aims to examine the concept of digital pseudo ...
Ekaterina Veselinovna Teneva
doaj   +1 more source

Logical fallacies as informational shortcuts [PDF]

open access: yesSynthese, 2008
zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
openaire   +2 more sources

What drawings draws on: the relevance of current vision research

open access: yesRivista di Estetica, 2011
Fifty years ago Ernst Gombrich’s Art and Illusion revolutionized philosophical and scientific study of visual representation by thoughtful -application of research from the modern vision sciences.
Patrick Maynard
doaj   +1 more source

Fetal Pain Perception: Legislative Assertions and Developmental Neuroscience

open access: yesAnnals of the Child Neurology Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pain perception is a conscious experience, but neither pain nor consciousness is defined in the developing human fetus. Emergent consciousness may be regarded as a phenomenon that ultimately arises from an essential minimum of functional neuronal connectivity. Proposed U.S.
William D. Graf   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Personalization Is Not an Option: An In-The-Wild Study on Persuasive News Recommendation

open access: yesInformation, 2019
Aiming at granting wide access to their contents, online information providers often choose not to have registered users, and therefore must give up personalization.
Cristina Gena   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

An investigation of critical thinking and individual voice in male and female EFL undergraduate university students' writings [PDF]

open access: yesTeaching English Language, 2013
The present study aimed to investigate Critical Thinking and Individual Voice in male and female Iranian undergraduate university students' writings. To this end, a set of literary works studied and discussed during the Introduction to English Literature
Habibollah Mashhady
doaj   +1 more source

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