Logical Fallacies

En su resumen el autor señala como objetivo de su artículo el ofrecer una explicación de la legitimidad de ciertos argumentos ad hominem acudiendo a la epistemología de las virtudes. Rivera-Novoa (2022) destaca como su tesis central la afirmación de que hay argumentos ad hominem que son aceptables si se conciben como argumentos inductivos cuya fuerza está determinada por una apelación justa a los vicios epistémicos del interlocutor. Si bien estimo que el tema es de gran interés y considero valiosas las distinciones que el autor hace; es precisamente esta caracterización de los mencionados argumentos “como inductivos” la que impugno en esta nota debido a sus consecuencias absurdas. Completaré mi crítica con una apelación a la inferencia plausible como marco adecuado en el que encajar las apelaciones a la autoridad y los argumentos basados en el ethos del orador en general. Entre estos últimos se incluyen los argumentos ad hominem apoyados en la epistemología de las virtudes.

C’est à la question : "Comment gagner un débat ?" que s'efforce de répondre ce manuel de poche qui n'a pas d'autre ambition que d'expliquer avec audace, clarté et pragmatisme les subtilités, les rouages ainsi que les mécanismes des débats de compétitions marocains, et d'offrir aux débatteurs, quels que soient leur niveau, des techniques éprouvées au fil des années dans l’art du débat, leur permettant de gagner avec aisance.

Unlike with my review of the Pirie text, the Langer review text never ended. But I will end this non-exhaustive review with this article, and of course continue to use the book as reference. My PhD was in philosophical theology and philosophy of religion, and my website work consists mainly of these academic disciplines along with biblical studies and philosophy. I am not a scientist or mathematician, but I have reviewed symbolic logic, which has mathematic symbols, for presenting propositions and premises.

Of course when I use science and mathematics, it needs to be accurate. This book review has strengthened my understanding of formal logic as a system, just as the Pirie text review has helped me to better understand informal logic.

A formal fallacy occurs when a logical form is not used, and therefore is illogical in structure, and an informal fallacy occurs when there are errors in reasoning with a premise (s) and conclusion. In the similar way, formal logic is concerned with a logical form, to follow the rules of a logical system, to avoid being illogical. Informal logic is attempting to avoid fallacious reasoning with use of premise (s) and conclusion.

When the subject of parenting arises today, much confusion emerges.  What can and should parents be doing?  What shouldn’t they do?  Whose opinion counts?  What authority do parents have?  Do parents have rights?  If so, what are they; where does that authority and their rights come from; and how can a parent maintain and explain the solid source of his or her authority and rights to others in this postmodern age that disregards and even rejects any objective standard?  This class offers answers to these and other questions, including questions raised by those who attend.  We will turn to God and examine what He says in his Word and through some of his general revelation, specifically logic and sound science, about parenting children, teenagers, and adult children.

This detailed PowerPoint program, in a sentence outline format, offers important information that parents, grandparents, and their children of all ages should know and implement in their lives about God’s Word pertaining to his will concerning their relationships.  Applications are made to issues today.

The information in this program is from God’s special revelation (the Bible) and from his general revelation (part of which comes from sound science, especially human learning research, and logic).  The latter illustrates ways to effectively implement the former.

This program can be presented as a one-session, or as a multi-session, class.  If the program must be presented in one session; since it contains much more valuable information than can be included in one session; and in order to allow time for discussion, it will be helpful to ask attendees to read the program prior to class.  Prior preparation enables the teacher to just comment on the sections he or she wants to emphasize and then open the session for discussion on any of those comments, or any questions and comments from the class, that they would like to discuss.  The program can be quickly accessed at either of the author’s two free and secure Websites: https://fromacorntooak12.com (also via edwardseely.com) and https://seelyedward.academia.edu.

When race becomes an issue in a public forum in the United States, we almost always embrace the motives fallacy. It’s an embarrassing display of national ignorance. Other cultures have variations of this, but it’s our peculiar mania to accuse others of racism in order to end debates. We no longer need to think about the reasonableness of an idea or policy because somebody affiliated with it has been deemed guilty of the most egregious sin we can imagine. Someone is morally flawed beyond repair by way of the accusation alone. At best, we’re now arguing about the charge of racism, and the accuser has won the original debate by default. In that still puritanical corner of our national consciousness, if someone is morally flawed, it means their idea or policy is wrong, no matter how universally beneficial it might be, and no matter how many people it helps, no matter how antiracist it is.

A: "Thank you for your willing to serve on my committee." 1. Thank you for BEING willing to serve on my committee. 2. Thank you for your WILLINGNESS to serve on my committee. B: We can use 'sort of variable' or 'variable-sort', but 'sort of variable-sort' is a TME. C: Abe and Ben are (mutual* ) friends (of each other* ). Probably one's best choice is 'Abe and Ben are friends'. However, in certain contexts, one could accept either 'Abe and Ben are mutual friends' or 'Abe and Ben are friends of each other'. But 'Abe and Ben are mutual friends of each other' is a two-method error or maybe a three-method error.

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Beware of two types of people in chats. They should be avoided no matter what. Conceited and sassy people who think they are the smartest. The term used to best describe them is “smart-aleck” or “smart-alecky”. These people are generally known to have an inflated perception of their own intelligence and cognitive abilities, despite a lack of evidence to support their self-perception. ...

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One of the most common strategies in philosophical dispute is that of accusing the opponent of begging the question, that is, of assuming or presupposing what is to be proved. Thus, it happens quite often that the credibility of a philosophical argument is infected by the suspicion of begging the question. In many cases it is an open question whether the suspicion is grounded, and the answer lurks somewhere in the dark of what the proponent of the argument does not say. This is why it may take years, or even centuries, before the begging of the question is brought to light. But few philosophers would deny that once it is established that a certain argument begs the question, that argument has to be rejected without hesitation: question-begging arguments are bad arguments, hence one should not appeal to them. Logicians traditionally classify begging the question as a fallacy, that is, as a bad reasoning that seems good at first sight. The fallacy is known under the name of petitio principii. This paper originated in our dissatisfaction with definitions of petitio principii found here and there in logic textbooks. Although it is uncontroversial that there is something wrong with begging the question, it is not clear from those definitions what is wrong.

Verkliga konspirationer existerar, men de uppdagas sällan genom konspirationsteoretiska metoder. Snarare uppdagas de genom konventionellt tänkande – en sund skepsis mot officiella redogörelser tillsammans med ett omsorgsfullt vägande för och emot av tillgängliga bevis, och en strävan efter konsekvens. Som motsats karaktäriseras konspirationstänkande av extrem skepsis mot all information som inte passar teorin, övertolkningar av fakta som stödjer konspirationsteorin, och självmotsägelser.

Handboken är framtagen av Stephan Lewandowsky och John Cook. Den översattes till svenska 2022 av Lotten Kalenius, föreningen Vetenskap och Folkbildning.

This article presents a peculiar type of logical fallacy. I have decided to call it the modal fallacy because it emerges from an unjustified disregard for the accessibility relations in modal logic. A closely related fallacy (also known as the modal fallacy or, sometimes, modal scope fallacy), involves an inappropriate change in the scope of a modal operator and, therefore, amounts to a syntactical error analogous to the invalid inference of ∃y∀xPxy from ∀x∃yPxy. In contrast, the fallacy considered here constitutes a valid argument from the point of view of logical syntax, but involves an implicit shift in the accessibility relations. This marks the problem as a characteristically modal phenomenon. Towards the end of this paper, we will turn to two simple applications of the insight gained from our diagnosis.

This paper explains how to recognize and steer clear of numerous common logical fallacies, ranging from ad hominem arguments to wishful thinking, that can damage an argument. Critical thinking is essential in the digital age, where we must question false or flawed claims. It helps us base our decisions on facts and evidence, not feelings or fallacious reasoning. Unfortunately, many employers struggle to find workers with this skill. To develop it, one must learn how to understand and evaluate the essence of an argument.

In the information-flooded digital age, where reasoning with clarity is paramount, many graduates find themselves ill-equipped with the critical thinking skills employers crave. To bridge this gap, one must delve into the treacherous terrain of cognitive biases, distortions, and logical fallacies-silent saboteurs of rational thinking. Mastering the art of recognizing and sidestepping these mental roadblocks paves the path to informed decisions and empowers us to navigate the world's complexities with sound judgment. The first step, however, is to be an active listener, appreciate the diversity of opinions, pursue truth, and never ridicule others.

What could inspire an extension researcher to write on “rational” extension conversations? Maybe a WhatsApp group full of extension academicians arguing with each other, or a casual chat with coworkers or friends, or perhaps both. Rational conversations happen only when the participants can think rationally without biases and argue without committing logical fallacies. In short, the participant should be a critical thinker.

Having meaningful conversations is critical for progress in any field. This requires critical thinking. D. Alagu Niranjan writes on some common fallacies that hamper good conversations in the extension discipline, based on his personal experience.

I offer a conceptual study of Aristotle's Sea Battle Paradox and propose that analysis of the paradox, as well as of its various solutions, can help to shed light on the psychology behind and the structure of the gambler's fallacy. I compare Aristotle's response to the paradox with Kierkegaard's subsequent response in his chapter of Philosophical Fragments "Is the Past More Necessary than the Future?" I argue that proponents of each solution lead us to a different diagnosis of the gambler's preoccupation with predetermination and future determination.

This paper provides methodological tools and considers the reasons why it is difficult to address the controversial question, “Are fallacies frequent?” After preliminary remarks on the need to clarify the meaning of both ‘fallacy’ and ‘frequency,’ this paper shows that the emphasis on whether fallacies occur frequently is recent and bound to contemporary definitions that make it a necessary condition. Then, it discusses three different, debated empirical approaches that are intended to support the claim that fallacies are frequent. All of them raise doubts or objections or are even controversial from a methodological point of view. Ultimately, more empirical research is needed to answer this question.

A key component of effective ministry is balancing essential aspects of the various ministries in which the Lord has called his people to serve him.  Theory, as used in this essay, is a cogent explanation of phenomena based on empirical research, and theory is sound when it is consistent with a careful following of the scientific method and Biblical theology.  This brief paper explains the need for balancing sound theory and practice in Christian education and other ministries, including youth ministry, and how to implement this balance.

A key component of effective ministry is balancing essential aspects of the various ministries in which the Lord has called his people to serve him.  This brief paper explains the need for balancing time and emphasis on the group as a whole (the corporate) and on the individual in Christian education and other ministries, including youth ministry, and how to implement this balance.

Celebrated for disproving the traditional view that lack of oxygen at birth (perinatal asphyxia) contributes significantly to cerebral palsy, a 1986 New England Journal of Medicine article by Karin Nelson and Jonas Ellenberg engineered a new consensus in the medical community: that lack of oxygen at birth rarely causes cerebral palsy. We demonstrate that the article's central argument relies on straightforwardly fallacious statistical reasoning, and we discuss significant implications-e.g. how carefully fetuses are monitored during labor and delivery, expert testimony in malpractice cases, and public policy decisions.

When an activity is unwanted, administrators often adopt a zero tolerance policy towards that activity. The background assumption is that, by adopting a zero tolerance policy, one is doing everything that one can to reduce or eliminate the activity in question. Yet which policy best serves to reduce an unwanted behavior is always an empirical question. Thus, those who adopt a zero tolerance policy towards some behavior without first investigating and finding that they are in a set of circumstances where that policy is the most cost-effective way of reducing or eliminating the undesirable behavior are committing the zero tolerance fallacy.

Critical thinking in the classroom is a common term used by educators.  Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating information gathered from or generated by observation, experience, reflection, reasoning or communication as a guide to belief and action (``Scriven, 1996”).  The challenge, of course is to create learning environments that promote critical thinking both in the classroom and beyond.  Teaching practicing critical thinking provides adults with the opportunity to embrace and take charge of their learning.  Typically, students who implement critical thinking skills approach the courseware in a more thoughtful and effective manner, ask more challenging questions and participate in the learning process more intensely.  To promote the critical thinking among the students various types of teaching strategies can be used by the teacher in the classroom.

ما به چه چیزی می‌توانیم اعتماد کنیم؟ این رودخانه‌ی متورم و خیانت‌بارِ اطلاعات، ما را ملزم می‌کند تا همه چیز را زیر سوال ببریم. فرآیند پرسشگری، رویارویی ما با هر نوع تصویری را نامطمئن می‌سازد. وامانده در ورطه‌ی راستی‌آزمایی، هر نمادی متزلزل می‌شود و از بین می‌رود.

This paper is a primer for discerning and addressing common fallacies of logic that daily occur in conversations, in what we read, and in what we see and hear in the media.  Drawn from the Bible and the field of logic, we need this information in order to perceive and understand hidden and flawed agendas; strengthen our own Christian witness and presentations, speaking the truth in love (Ephesians 4:15); and to help others reason logically.  It also highlights why this subject should be taught in church youth and adult education ministries, especially in a one- or two-session Special Focus class or in a mini-course.

The winning entry in David Stove's Competition to Find the Worst Argument in the World was: “We can know things only as they are related to us/insofar as they fall under our conceptual schemes, etc., so, we cannot know things as they are in themselves.” That argument underpins many recent relativisms, including postmodernism, post-Kuhnian sociological philosophy of science, cultural relativism, sociobiological versions of ethical relativism, and so on. All such arguments have the same form as ‘We have eyes, therefore we cannot see’, and are equally invalid.

Students of the literature on entailment [7], [1] are familiar with the von Wright-Geach definition of entailment [6], [2]: p entails q if, and only if, by means of logic, 1 it is possible to come to know the truth of •"/ > D cp without coming to know the falsehood of p or the truth of q. A competitor of the Lewis account of entailment as strict implication, the von Wright-Geach definition has enjoyed little success. Perhaps one reason is that the definition is essentially epistemic, and entailment is not widely thought to be an epistemic notion. 2 The notion of entailment aside, however, the von Wright-Geach notion does intriguingly seem to be applicable to one interesting epistemic concept of obvious logical interest. In this article,* we suggest that the von Wright-Geach definiens, in effect, partially defines the concept of a non-circular demonstration, and we argue that the von Wright-Geach definiens can be extended in a natural way to yield a full definition for non-circular demonstration. Thus we think of the latter notion in a frankly epistemic way. We have argued in [8] and [9] that circularity of argument (petitio principii) is best thought of as an epistemic matter, and for those who agree with us on this point it may not seem too surprising that there is a connection between circularity and von Wright-Geach "entailment". For those who disagree with our thesis that petitio is essentially epistemic, we hope that establishing the connection in question may serve to diminish the disagreement. In either case, we think that this new application of the von Wright-Geach framework is interesting in its own right. In [9] we argued that the history of the subject, which has largely followed in the tradition set by Aristotle in various remarks in the Topics, De Sophisticis Elenchis, and the Rhetoric? suggests the wisdom of *Research for this paper was partly supported by Canada Council Leave Grant W750356. We would like to thank members of the Logic Seminar of Victoria University of Wellington, especially Max Cresswell, for discussions of some aspects of this paper.

Celebrated for disproving the traditional view that lack of oxygen at birth (perinatal asphyxia) contributes significantly to cerebral palsy, a 1986 New England Journal of Medicine article by Karin Nelson and Jonas Ellenberg engineered a new consensus in the medical community: that lack of oxygen at birth rarely causes cerebral palsy. We demonstrate that the article's central argument relies on straightforwardly fallacious statistical reasoning, and we discuss significant implications-e.g. how carefully fetuses are monitored during labor and delivery, expert testimony in malpractice cases, and public policy decisions.

The purpose of this study is to determine the views of students attending Science and Art Centers (SAC) about Socratic research seminars. This qualitative study was conducted with nine undergraduate students. Individual interviews were conducted with students after the seminars, which spanned 10 weeks, about their opinions of the seminars. As a result of the content analysis, it was found that students rated the Socratic research process as a process in which they can freely express their thoughts, have a scientific experience that contributes to their development, individual differences come out, a good method is used for the development of the discussion, questions and discussions about science are held. In addition, students believe that at the end of the seminars, they can ask better questions both quantitatively and qualitatively, change their ideas, question themselves, develop their sense of curiosity, emphatically respond to different opinions and make philosophical inquiries.

A multidisciplinary path between verbal and non-verbal communication, psychology and rhetoric. To improve your communication skills.

CONTENTS:
Introduction
The Basics of the Art of Oratory
Constructing a Speech
The Figurative Language
Deceive With Words
Editorial Style of Written Speech
Paraverbal Communication
Non-Verbal Communication
Knowledge of Emotions and Stress Control
Memorization and Exercise
Conclusions
Bibliography

This study investigated the effectiveness of Socratic seminar teaching technique in fostering second-year EFL students‟ oral fluency in terms of speech rate and pausing frequency. To reach this objective, a quasi-experimental with non-equivalent control group design was adopted with 12 participants enrolled in the department of English at Bejaia University that are split into two groups; experimental and control. The data were gathered using pre-andpost-test to determine the participants‟ oral fluency level prior and after the implementation of the treatment, observation to obtain data of the talk dominance, teachers and students „roles and classroom environment, then a post-experiment questionnaire to identify the participants‟ perceptions towards the use of the Socratic seminar technique. The data were analyzed using descriptive and statistical methods including Praat speech analysis, standard deviations, Likert scale, paired sample t-test, and effect size. The findings indicated ...

Politička debata kroz prizmu argumentacionih substruktura Današnji jezik politike zahteva od govornika poznavanje različitih profesionalih kodova, jer uključuje prelazak iz jednog profesionalnog koda u drugi, u okviru jedne debate. Politička komunikacija, kao takva, može biti: jednosmerna tj. kada je govornik samo pošiljalac ili primalac poruke; naizmenična kada se smenjuju u ulogama; direktna, kao u slučaju političke komunikacije u parlamentu, kada govornici razgovaraju oči u oči i indirektna, kada se poruka među njima prenosi nekim tehničkim sredstvom, ali i dvosmerna kada se radi o replikama i sl. Ona zahteva, od učesnika u komunikativnom procesu, dobro ovladavanje raznolikim sredstvima javne komunikacije, komunikacijskim kanalima kao adekvatnim strukturiranjem debate ili njenog dela.

The three most lasting legacies of late-totalitarian ideology have been the subversion of the ability of language to say something about the world, most notably by gradual elimination of the differences between distinct and indeed opposite concepts; the endorsement of logical fallacies as normal forms of argument; and thirdly, the deconstructed atomized concept of the person, as a collection of primal needs and fears, devoid of a personality and communal identity, ready to be manipulated through needs and fears. I illustrate these characteristics by examining the writings of a Czech former secret police officer about Czech democracy, Derrida about Patočka's concept of responsibility, and Žižek on totalitarianism.

Ljudi imaju razlicit smisao za humor, a doživljavanje cega smijesnim ovisi o njihovu spolu i obrazovanju. Kao sto nemaju jednake sklonosti u odabiru zanimljive literature, filmova, izložbi itd., tako se i ocjene smijesnih situacija razlikuju. S obzirom na to da je veoma tesko obuhvatiti sve humoristicne sadržaje iskazane jezikom, u ovome radu analizirat ce se tek cetiri clanka s dviju internetskih stranica – Sprdexa i News bara. Najprije ce se pokusati objasniti sto je humor, a sto ironija, odnosno kakav tip humora je ironija. Izdvojit ce se i intertekstualnost kao važan aspekt u ironiji kao tipu humora. Anketom utemeljenom na spomenuta cetiri clanka ispitane su recepcija humora u ovim clancima i razlike u recepciji s obzirom na to kojeg su spola ispitanici, koje vrste i kojeg stupnja obrazovanja. Drugi dio rada bit ce posvecen tekstnoj analizi ovih cetiriju clanaka. U navedenim clancima nastojat ce se pronaci sva nacela tekstualnosti o kojima pisu De Beugrande i Dressler. Na taj na...

Critical thinking in the classroom is a common term used by educators.  Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating information gathered from or generated by observation, experience, reflection, reasoning or communication as a guide to belief and action (``Scriven, 1996”).  The challenge, of course is to create learning environments that promote critical thinking both in the classroom and beyond.  Teaching practicing critical thinking provides adults with the opportunity to embrace and take charge of their learning.  Typically, students who implement critical thinking skills approach the courseware in a more thoughtful and effective manner, ask more challenging questions and participate in the learning process more intensely.  To promote the critical thinking among the students various types of teaching strategies can be used by the teacher in the classroom.

After an introductory analysis of the terms stereotype and prejudice, an attempt will be made to link these concepts (of primarily psychological and sociological scope) to the rhetorical-linguistic and legal areas. It will be confirmed how certain techniques of logical-legal reasoning, in the past, technically and neutrally used certain tools (the loci) that represent the forerunners of today's 'prejudices'; and it will be confirmed how cognitive biases and argumentative fallacies have deformed and instrumentalized rhetoric to the point of representing the prevailing tools in the development and dissemination of prejudices, even in the judicial area, even today.

The research in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) has nowadays extended its attention to the study of persuasive technologies. Following this line of research, in this paper we focus on websites and mobile applications in the e-commerce domain. In particular, we take them as an evident example of persuasive technologies. Starting from the hypothesis that there is a strong connection between

I find myself at the end of 2016 thinking about how differently we all make sense out of our shared experiences this year. “Common wisdom” seems to have it that 2016 was generally worse than other years – some of our favorite people died and the wheels fell off of whatever we thought they were on

Determining the impact of belief bias on everyday reasoning is critical for understanding how our beliefs can influence how we judge arguments. We examined the impact of belief bias on the user’s ability to identify logical fallacies in political arguments. We found that participants had more difficulty identifying logical fallacies in arguments that aligned with their own political beliefs. Interestingly, this effect diminishes with practice. These results suggest that while belief bias is a potential barrier to correctly evaluating everyday arguments, interventions focused on activating rational engagement may mitigate its impact.