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Fallacies
- 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” alternative...
- B.F. Griffith
- February 17, 2017
circulus in demonstrando ≍ “circular reasoning”
circular reasoning...
- 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...
- B.F. Griffith
- February 17, 2017
modal scope fallacy
* misconditionalization, fallacy of neccessity > The _de dicto_ expression □ (Bx → ⌐ Mx) is a tauto...
- Ἀριστοτέλης
- March 5, 350
non distributio medii ≍ “undistributed middle” fallacy
* This fallacy is committed when the middle term in a categorical syllogism is not distributed in e...
- B.F. Griffith
- February 17, 2017
plurium interrogationum ≍ “fallacy of many questions”
fallacy of too many questions ## “whataboutism”...