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A Secondary Tool for Demarcation Problem: Logical Fallacies [PDF]
, 2017 According to Thagard, the behavior of practitioners of a field may also be used for demarcation between science and pseudoscience due to its social dimension in addition to the epistemic one.
Uyar, Tevfik
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Reasoning under uncertainty: the role of two informal fallacies in an emerging scientific inquiry [PDF]
, 2002 It is now commonplace in fallacy inquiry for many of the traditional informal fallacies to be viewed as reasonable or non-fallacious modes of argument.
Cummings, L
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Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
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Environmental Research CommunicationsThe spread of fake news and the influence of moral reasoning on public opinion present significant challenges in climate change communication. This study examines how the ideological underpinnings of conservatism and liberalism, combined with logical ...
Mehmet Özer Demir +5 more
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Constructive Memory in Truth‐Telling for Reconciliation
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Truth‐telling has, in diverse contexts, been conceptualised as a vehicle for achieving reconciliation following injustice. As a social and political phenomenon, it involves the communication of narratives grounded in episodic memory. Such narratives may fail to reproduce the details of past events and may even include details that were not ...
Alberto Guerrero‐Velázquez +1 more
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Bo Bennett, Author of The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies!
A Priori, 2021 Interview with Bo Bennett.
Bo Bennett, Ana Galić
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Intellectual humility and argumentation [PDF]
, 2020 In this chapter I argue that intellectual humility is related to argumentation in several distinct but mutually supporting ways. I begin by drawing connections between humility and two topics of long-standing importance to the evaluation of informal ...
Aberdein, Andrew
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Homology and logical fallacy [PDF]
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 1992 AbstractThe meaning of homology, is analyzed in a phylogenetic context. The notion of homology is unequivocal only if tied to recency of common ancestry, i.e. to the concept of monophyly. Processual analysis of the biological causes of similarity cannot provide guidance in the search for relations of homology.
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Despite their controversial nature, biodiversity offsets are often used as a regulatory tool to counterbalance the impacts of land clearing on biodiversity. Offsets usually aim to achieve no net loss (NNL) of biodiversity through protection and/or restoration of habitat.
Laure‐Elise Ruoso +3 more
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A Critical Pragmatic Study of Fallacy in Religious Debates
مجلة كلية التربية للبناتA fallacy is a kind of faulty reasoning that undermines the credibility of an argument on a logical level and paves the way for the argument to be exposed as being invalid. It is a flaw in reasoning that contravenes one or more of the five main criteria
Zina Esam Awad, Wafaa Sahib Mehdi
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