DandA Week 3: Fallacies
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- Created on: 25-04-17 15:32
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- Week 3: Fallacies
- What are fallacies?
- Flaws in arguments, errors in reasoning
- The conclusion does not follow from the premises, or some premise is false.
- An argument in which the reasons advanced or accepted in support of a conclusion fair to justify its acceptance.
- Bad arguments
- Fallacies may be created unintentionally, or they may be created intentionally in order to deceive and manipulate
- Formal vs (substantive) informal fallacies
- Formal fallacies: arising from failures of logical connections between premises and conclusion
- Formal fallacies are fallacious only because of their logical form.
- Informal (substantive) fallacies: involve and implicit premise of a general nature, which when made explicit, is seen to be in fact false
- An informal fallacy is fallacious because of both its form and its content.
- Formal fallacies: arising from failures of logical connections between premises and conclusion
- What are fallacies?
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