FALLACY

in logic, a term used to characterize an invalid argument. Strictly speaking, it refers only to the transition from a set of premises to a conclusion, and is distinguished from falsity, a value attributed to a single statement. The laws of syllogisms were systematically elaborated by Aristotle, and for an argument to be valid, it must adhere to all the laws; to be fallacious, it need only break one (see syllogism). The term fallacy has come to be used in a somewhat wider sense than the purely formal one. Informal fallacies are said to occur when statements are ambiguous or vague as to the logical form they represent, or when a multiplicity of meaning is present and the validity of the argument depends on switching meanings of a word or a phrase in midstream.

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books on: Fallacy  - 17385 results

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Plato's Use of Fallacy: A Study of the Euthydemus and Some Other Dialogues
Book by Rosamond Kent Sprague; Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962
Subjects: Fallacies (Logic), Plato--Euthydemus
...an article, "Platos Consciousness of Fallacy, Mind, LI", No. 102, April, 1942...subtlety and formidableness of this type of fallacy; it contains nothing more than one of...that Plato attached no importance to the fallacy of equivocation is that there exists neither...
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Population Fallacies
Book by Jack Parsons; Elek/Pemberton, 1977
Subjects: Economic Development, Population
...socialisation argument: the fallacy of the large family...THREE The scientific fallacies Chapter 8. The...demographic argument: the fallacy of the population...FOUR The economic fallacies Chapter 10. The general case: the fallacy of more people...
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The Literary Fallacy
Book by Bernard J. De Voto; Little, Brown and Company, 1944
Subjects: American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism
...phenomenon which I have called the literary fallacy, though it is not a formal fallacy but rather a complex of fallacies in logic, defects in observation and...sometimes requires me to partly separate the fallacy from its context. Sometimes it requires...
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Drug Precipice: Illicit Drugs, Organised Crime, Fallacies of Legalisation, Worsening Problems, Solutions
Book by Amol Moffitt, John Malouf, Craig Thompson; University of New South Wales Press, 1998
Subjects: Drug Abuse--Australia, Drug Legalization--Australia, Drug Traffic--Australia, Narcotics, Control Of--Australia, Organized Crime--Australia
...prohibitionists 60 - 61 medical use fallacy 137 - 38 government responsibility 165...policy 118, 120, 153 , 156, 158 no worse fallacy 83 -85, 95 - 96 noradrenaline 3 normal...114 - 17 , 127-28, 156 not proven fallacy 85 - 86 occupational addiction 3 Olley...
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The Great Jackass Fallacy
Book by Harry Levinson; Harvard University, 1973
Subjects: Employee Motivation, Organizational Change, Personnel Management
...assumption that people are motivated by rewards and punishments, Professor Levinson calls "The Jackass Fallacy." He has detected this Fallacy as corrupting the techniques of management appraisal, as underlying the conflicts of family businesses...
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Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology
Journal article by Janice Peterson; Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 42, 2008
Subjects: Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
Adams Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology. by Janice Peterson Adams Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology, by Duncan K. Foley...outcomes through competitive market forces. In Adams Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology, Duncan K. Foley...
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The Treatment of Fallacies in Argumentative Situations during Mediation Sessions
Journal article by Alena L. Vasilyeva; Argumentation and Advocacy, Vol. 46, 2010
Subjects: Argument (Philosophy)--Methods, Dialectic--Research, Fallacies (Logic)--Analysis, Mediation--Methods
...interaction. WHAT IS A FALLACY? Fallacies enjoy a special place...Dialectical Approach to Fallacies The dialectical concept of fallacy is reflected in two modern...model for identifying fallacies, whether a fallacy is considered to be a...
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The Conjunction Fallacy: A Derived Stimulus Relations Conceptualization and Demonstration Experiment
Journal article by Scott T. Gaynor, Yukiko Washio, Frederick Anderson; The Psychological Record, Vol. 57, 2007
Subjects: Fallacies (Logic)--Research, Human acts--Research, Human behavior--Research, Stimulus compounding--Research
The Conjunction Fallacy: A Derived Stimulus Relations Conceptualization...cognitive literature: the conjunction fallacy (CF); (b) provide an interpretation...the interpretation. The Conjunction Fallacy Human reasoning often fails to conform...
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Fallacies and Argument Appraisal
Journal article by Brent Brossmann; Argumentation and Advocacy, Vol. 43, 2006
Subjects: Argument (Philosophy)--Criticism and interpretation, Fallacies (Logic)--Criticism and interpretation, Fallacies and Argument Appraisal (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Tindale, Christopher W.--Criticism and interpretation, Tindale, Christopher W.--Works
...Similarly, many fallacies are so obvious that...interpretation: "a fallacy is a particular...in determining a fallacy. Tindales primary...relationship between fallacies and arguments...including apparent fallacies that actually are...about each potential fallacy. In most cases...
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Twelve Fallacies in Contemporary Adaptation Theory
Journal article by Thomas Leitch; Criticism, Vol. 45, 2003
Subjects: Fallacies (Logic), Motion picture industry, Movie industry, Television adaptations--Analysis
Twelve Fallacies in Contemporary Adaptation...examining a dozen interlinked fallacies that have kept adaptation...This is the founding fallacy of adaptation studies...the only one of my twelve fallacies that is actually true...
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The Poietic Fallacy
Magazine article by Richard Taruskin; Musical Times, Vol. 145, Spring 2004
Subjects: Books, Classical music, Musicians & conductors, Schoenberg, Arnold, Shawn, Allen
The Poietic Fallacy by Richard Taruskin Arnold Schoenbergs...same. I have come to call it the poietic fallacy: the conviction that what matters most...of it, the makers input. The poietic fallacy is what has given rise to the situation...
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Ten Anti-Death Penalty Fallacies: The Case against Capital Punishment Relies on Myth, Misinformation, and Misplaced Emotionalism
Magazine article by Thomas R. Eddlem; The New American, Vol. 18, June 3, 2002
Subjects: Administration of criminal justice--Political aspects, Capital punishment--Political aspects, Criminal justice, Administration of--Political aspects, Liberalism--Ethical aspects
Ten Anti-Death Penalty Fallacies: The Case against Capital...capital punishment opponents. FALLACY #1: Racism "The death penalty...than killers of black people. FALLACY #2: Cost "It costs more...sale to the lowest bidder. FALLACY #3: Innocence "A review...
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Fallacies and Confusions
Magazine article by Michael Graubart; Musical Times, Vol. 145, Autumn 2004
Subjects: Aesthetics, Composition, Music
Fallacies and Confusions by Michael...Spring 2004 MT, The poietic fallacy, elaborates the idea that...calls this belief the poietic fallacy. I should like to propose...not victims of the poietic fallacy at all, but that they muddied...
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Iraq War Fallacies: Proponents of Keeping Our Soldiers in Iraq Repeatedly Offer the Same Rationale for Their Viewpoint. Here, Their Most Often Cited Reasons Are Refuted
Magazine article by William F. Jasper; The New American, Vol. 22, January 9, 2006
Subjects: Bush, George W.--Military policy, Bush, George W.--Political activity, Civil war--Casualties, Iraq War, 2003--Casualties, Iraq--Military aspects, Iraq--Social aspects, Muslims--Political activity, Soldiers--Military aspects
Iraq War Fallacies: Proponents of Keeping Our...Refuted. by William F. Jasper FALLACY: If the United States pulls...Iraq into an ally of Iran. FALLACY: The huge turnout of Iraqi...tragic corner of the world. FALLACY: But we must support democracy...
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Fallacy
Magazine article by Charles Lambdin; Skeptic, Vol. 12, 2006
Subjects: Credibility, Science
Fallacy by Charles Lambdin THE FALLACY OF THE GOLDEN Mean, a.k.a. Fallacy of the Mean, Fallacy of Compromise, or Fallacy of Moderation, is based on the assumption that the middle ground is always more likely to he a correct position than...
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A MAN OF STYLE AND SUBSTANCE; Mowbray Rebuts 'Fallacy' That You Can Have Flair OR Results, but Not Both
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 18, 2009
...OF STYLE AND SUBSTANCE; Mowbray Rebuts Fallacy That You Can Have Flair OR Results, but...and prosper at Parkhead. He claimed a fallacy had been created around his insistence...might be required? There is a bit of a fallacy around me about stylish, attacking football...
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Fallacies
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 17, 2005
Fallacies. THE dictionary defines fallacy as follows: 1) orig. deception; 2) aptness to mislead, deceptive or delusive quality (the fallacy of the senses); 3) a false or mistaken idea, opinion, etc...
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The CBS Fallacy
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), November 14, 2011
Subjects: CBS Inc. CBS News, Paul, Ron, Television broadcasting industry
The CBS Fallacy. Byline: Jennifer Harper, THE WASHINGTON TIMES THE CBS FALLACY Fireworks and accusations follow the 10th presidential debate hosted by CBS News and the National Journal, even though the Republican candidates went for the gravitas...
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Care Homes Fallacy Needs Correcting
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), February 21, 2009
Subjects: Housing developers, Nursing homes
Care Homes Fallacy Needs Correcting. Byline: ALAN CARTER IREAD with interest The Journals...every area, and bring jobs and trade for local businesses. This is a fallacy that needs correcting. Most care homes rely on public money to fund...
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Wind Energy Illusion Based on a Fallacy; & COMMENT DEBATE YOUR LETTERS TO THE NATIONAL NEWSPAPER OF WALES
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), June 2, 2011
Subjects: Newspapers, Wind power
Wind Energy Illusion Based on a Fallacy; COMMENT DEBATE YOUR LETTERS TO THE NATIONAL NEWSPAPER OF WALES...is wrong to pursue this green chimera, based, as it is, on a fallacy. The Welsh Assemblys decision to designate the Cambrian Mountains...
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Fallacy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FALLACY in logic, a term used to characterize...break one (see syllogism ). The term fallacy has come to be used in a somewhat wider sense than the purely formal one. Informal fallacies are said to occur when statements are...
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Moore, George Edward
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...argued that to define the concept of the good in terms of other concepts would involve the "naturalistic fallacy" i.e., the fallacy of identifying the good with some physical or psychological quality such as pleasure or self-realization...
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Vacuum
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...when the experimental observations of Galileo and the Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli demonstrated its essential fallacy. Torricelli obtained a nearly perfect vacuum (Torricellian vacuum) in his mercury barometer . A common but incorrect belief...
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De Voto, Bernard Augustine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Mark Twain in Eruption (1940), and Mark Twain at Work (1942). His other works include literary studies, The Literary Fallacy (1944) and The World of Fiction (1950); The Journals of Lewis and Clark (1953), which he edited; and several novels...
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Rocket , in Aeronautics
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...interior wall of the chamber pushes the rocket forward. A common misconception, before space exploration pointed up its obvious fallacy, holds that a rocket accelerates by pushing on the atmosphere behind it. Actually, a rocket operates more efficiently in...
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