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Ἀριστοτέλης
- February 17, 2017
argumentum ad temperantiam ≍ “argument from moderation” fallacy
What is “moderate” is not necessarily always better or preferable to any more “extreme” alternatives. It is a fallacy to presume that moderation (or a more “moderate” course of action, habitual chara...
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B.F. Griffith
- February 17, 2017
circulus in demonstrando ≍ “circular reasoning”
circular reasoning...
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B.F. Griffith
- February 17, 2017
modal fallacy
> Norman Swartz gave the following example of how the modal fallacy can lead one to conclude that t...
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B.F. Griffith
- February 17, 2017
modal scope fallacy
* misconditionalization, fallacy of neccessity > The _de dicto_ expression □ (Bx → ⌐ Mx) is a tauto...
