Syllogistic

• B.F. Griffith
• February 17, 2017
• • Fallacies,
  • Formal fallacies

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
• • Fallacies,
  • Formal fallacies

modal scope fallacy

* misconditionalization, fallacy of neccessity > The _de dicto_ expression □ (Bx → ⌐ Mx) is a tauto...

• Ἀριστοτέλης
• March 5, 350
• • Fallacies,
  • Formal fallacies

non distributio medii ≍ “undistributed middle” fallacy

* This fallacy is committed when the middle term in a categorical syllogism is not distributed in e...