Aristotle on false reasoning [[electronic resource] ] : language and the world in the Sophistical refutations / / Scott G. Schreiber |
Autore | Schreiber Scott G (Scott Gregory), <1952-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
Disciplina | 185 |
Collana | SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy |
Soggetto topico |
Reasoning
Fallacies (Logic) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-7914-8718-0
1-4175-2408-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451321503321 |
Schreiber Scott G (Scott Gregory), <1952-> | ||
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Aristotle on false reasoning [[electronic resource] ] : language and the world in the Sophistical refutations / / Scott G. Schreiber |
Autore | Schreiber Scott G (Scott Gregory), <1952-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
Disciplina | 185 |
Collana | SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy |
Soggetto topico |
Reasoning
Fallacies (Logic) |
ISBN |
0-7914-8718-0
1-4175-2408-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777438503321 |
Schreiber Scott G (Scott Gregory), <1952-> | ||
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Aristotle on false reasoning : language and the world in the Sophistical refutations / / Scott G. Schreiber |
Autore | Schreiber Scott G (Scott Gregory), <1952-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
Disciplina | 185 |
Collana | SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy |
Soggetto topico |
Reasoning
Fallacies (Logic) |
ISBN |
0-7914-8718-0
1-4175-2408-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Aristotle on False Reasoning -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction: Reasoning and the Sophistical Refutations -- ARISTOTLE ON THE KINDS OF REASONING -- THE SOPHISTICAL REFUTATIONS -- OUTLINE OF THE BOOK -- Part 1: Fallacies Due to Language -- 1. The Power of Names -- NAMING IS NOT LIKE COUNTING -- "COUNTERS" -- "SIGNIFIERS" -- CONCLUSION -- 2. Homonymy and Amphiboly -- INTRODUCTION -- THE SIX SOURCES OF FALSE REASONING DUE TO LANGUAGE -- HOMONYMY -- Homonymy in the Categories -- Homonymy in S.E. -- AMPHIBOLY -- Amphiboly in S.E. -- Amphiboly Outside the Organon -- Problems with Aristotle's Distinction: The Argument of S.E. 17 -- CONCLUSION -- 3. Form of the Expression -- INTRODUCTION -- FORM OF THE EXPRESSION AS A CATEGORY MISTAKE -- Confusion of Substance with Quantity -- Confusion of Substance with Relative -- Confusion of Substance with Quality -- Confusion of Substance with Time -- Confusion of Activity with "Being-Affected" -- Confusion of Activity with Quality -- FORM OF THE EXPRESSION FALLACIES THAT ARE NOT CATEGORY MISTAKES -- Confusion of a Particular with a Universal -- Confusion of One Particular Substance with Another -- Confusions Based on Gender Terminations -- FORM OF THE EXPRESSION AND SOLECISM: ARISTOTLE AND PROTAGORAS -- FORM OF THE EXPRESSION AS A LINGUISTIC FALLACY OF DOUBLE MEANING -- 4. Composition, Division, and Accent -- DIFFICULTIES AND PROCEDURE -- FALLACIES DUE TO ACCENT -- FALLACIES DUE TO COMPOSITION AND DIVISION (C/D) -- C/D Fallacies Are Not Examples of Double Meaning -- The Primacy of Oral Speech -- Further Examples -- Confusing Linguistic Parts and Wholes -- C/D Fallacies in the Rhetoric -- CONCLUSION -- Part 2: Resolutions of False Arguments -- 5. Resolutions of False Arguments -- INTRODUCTION -- PRINCIPLES OF ARISTOTELIAN ANALYTICAL METHOD -- TWO KINDS OF RESOLUTION.
THE PRINCIPLE OF PARSIMONY -- PROPER REFUTATIONS AND THEIR DEFECTS: IGNORATIO ELENCHI -- RESOLUTIONS OF FALLACIES DUE TO LANGUAGE -- How These Fallacies Violate the De.nition of a Refutation -- The Unity of Composition and Division: S.E. 23 -- The Extralinguistic Component of Resolutions to Linguistic Fallacies -- Part 3: Fallacies Outside of Language -- 6. Begging the Question and Non-Cause As Cause -- INTRODUCTION -- THE FALLACY OF BEGGING THE QUESTION -- Begging the Question in the Prior Analytics -- Begging the Question in Dialectical Reasoning -- Begging the Question and Immediate Inferences -- RESOLUTIONS -- THE FALLACY OF TREATING A NON-CAUSE AS CAUSE -- CONCLUSION -- 7. Accident and Consequent -- INTRODUCTION -- FALLACIES DUE TO ACCIDENT AND THEIR RESOLUTIONS -- FALSE RESOLUTIONS TO FALLACIES DUE TO ACCIDENT -- False Resolutions by Appeal to Linguistic Equivocation -- False Resolutions by Appeal to Oblique Context -- False Resolutions by Citing Missing Qualifications -- Final Remarks on Double Meaning and Fallacies Due to Accident -- HISTORICAL REASONS FOR TREATING FALLACIES DUE TO ACCIDENT AS ERRORS OF LOGICAL FORM -- FALLACIES DUE TO CONSEQUENT -- Introduction -- Aristotle's Examples -- CONCLUSION -- 8. Secundum Quid -- INTRODUCTION -- TWO TYPES OF SECUNDUM QUID FALLACY -- RESOLUTIONS OF SECUNDUM QUID FALLACIES -- SECUNDUM QUID AS A FALLACY OUTSIDE OF LANGUAGE: ARISTOTLE'S POSITION -- PROBLEMS WITH ARISTOTLE'S POSITION -- CONCLUSION -- 9. Many Questions -- INTRODUCTION -- DISJUNCTIVE AND CONJUNCTIVE PREMISES -- Disjunctive Premises -- Conjunctive Premises -- RESOLUTIONS OF FALLACIES DUE TO MANY QUESTIONS -- HOMONYMY AND AMPHIBOLY AS CASES OF MANY QUESTIONS -- UNITY OF PREDICATION VERSUS UNITY OF DEFINITION: THE PROBLEM OF DE INTERPRETATIONE -- de Interpretatione 5 -- de Interpretatione 8 and 11 -- CONCLUSION -- Conclusion and Summary. Appendix 1: Paralogisms in Aristotle -- Appendix 2: Words and Counters-Platonic Antecedents -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4: Platonic and Academic Background to Secundum Quid -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- CHAPTER 8 -- CHAPTER 9 -- CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY -- APPENDIX 1 -- APPENDIX 2 -- APPENDIX 3 -- APPENDIX 4 -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U. |
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Schreiber Scott G (Scott Gregory), <1952-> | ||
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Bad arguments : 100 of the most important fallacies in Western philosophy / / edited by Robert Arp, Steven Barbone, and Michael Bruce |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, NJ : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (452 pages) |
Disciplina | 165 |
Soggetto topico |
Fallacies (Logic)
Philosophy |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-119-16580-6
1-119-16579-2 1-119-16581-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; Part I. |t Formal fallacies. |t Propositional logic. |t Affirming a disjunct / |r Jason Iuliano ; |t Affirming the consequent / |r Brett Gaul ; |t Denying the antecedent / |r Brett Gaul -- |t Categorical logic. |t Exclusive premises / Charlene Elsby ; |t Four terms / |r Charlene Elsby ; |t Illicit major and minor terms / |r Charlene Elsby ; |t Undistributed middle / |r Charlene Elsby -- |g Part II. |t Informal fallacies. |t Fallacies of relevance. |t Ad hominem: bias / |r George Wrisley ; |t Ad hominem: circumstantial / |r George Wrisley ; |t Ad hominem: direct / |r George Wrisley ; |t Ad hominem: tu quoque / |r George Wrisley ; |t Adverse consequences / |r David Vander Laan ; |t Appeal to emotion: force or fear / |r George Wrisley ; |t Appeal to emotion: pity / |r George Wrisley ; |t Appeal to ignorance / |r Benjamin W. McCraw ; |t Appeal to the people / |r Benjamin W. McCraw ; |t Appeal to personal incredulity / |r Tuomas W. Manninen ; |t Appeal to ridicule / |r Gregory L. Bock ; |t Appeal to tradition / |r Nicolas Michaud ; |t Argument from fallacy / |r Christian Cotton ; |t Availability error / |r David Kyle Johnson ; |t Base rate / |r Tuomas W. Manninen ; |t Burden of proof / |r Andrew Russo ; |t Countless counterfeits / |r David Kyle Johnson ; |t Diminished responsibility / |r Tuomas W. Manninen ; |t Essentializing / |r Jack Bowen ; |t Galileo gambit / |r David Kyle Johnson ; |t Gambler's fallacy / |r Grant Sterling ; |t Genetic fallacy / |r Frank Scalambrino ; |t Historian's fallacy / |r Heather Rivera ; |t Homunculus / |r Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray ; |t Inappropriate appeal to authority / |r Nicolas Michaud ; |t Irrelevant conclusion / |r Steven Barbone ; |t Kettle logic / |r Andy Wible ; |t Line drawing / |r Alexander E. Hooke ; |t Mistaking the relevance of proximate causation / |r David Kyle Johnson ; |t Moving the goalposts / |r Tuomas W. Manninen ; |t Mystery, therefore magic / |r David Kyle Johnson ; |t Naturalistic fallacy / |r Benjamin W. McCraw ; |t Poisoning the well / |r Roberto Ruiz ; |t Proving too much / |r Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray ; |t Psychologist's fallacy / |r Frank Scalambrino ; |t Red herring / |r Heather Rivera ; |t Reductio ad Hitlerum / |r Frank Scalambrino ; |t Argument by repetition / |r Leigh Kolb ; |t Special pleading / |r Dan Yim ; |t Straw man / |r Scott Aikin and John Casey ; |t Sunk cost / |r Robert Arp ; |t Two wrongs make a right / |r David LaRocca ; |t Weak analogy / |r Bertha Alvarez Manninen -- |t Fallacies of ambiguity. |t Accent / |r Roberto Ruiz ; |t Amphiboly / |r Roberto Ruiz ; |t Composition / |r Jason Waller ; |t Confusing an explanation for an excuse / |r Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray ; |t Definist fallacy / |r Christian Cotton ; |t Division / |r Jason Waller ; |t Equivocation / |r Bertha Alvarez Manninen ; |t Etymological fallacy / |r Leigh Kolb ; |t Euphemism / |r Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray ; |t Hedging / |r Christian Cotton ; |t If by whiskey / |r Christian Cotton ; |t Inflation of conflict / |r Andy Wible ; |t Legalistic mistake / |r Marco Antonio Azevedo ; |t Oversimplification / |r Dan Burkett ; |t Proof by verbosity / |r Phil Smolenski ; |t Sorites fallacy / |r Jack Bowen -- |t Fallacies of Presumption. |t Accident / |r Steven Barbone ; |t All or nothing / |r David Kyle Johnson ; |t Anthropomorphic bias / |r David Kyle Johnson ; |t Begging the question / |r Heather Rivera ; |t Chronological snobbery / |r A.G. Holdier ; |t Complex question / |r A.G. Holdier ; |t Confirmation bias / |r David Kyle Johnson ; |t Conjunction / |r Jason Iuliano ; |t Constructive nature of perception / |r David Kyle Johnson ; |t Converse accident / |r Steven Barbone ; |t Existential fallacy / |r Frank Scalambrino ; |t False cause: cum hoc ergo propter hoc / |r Bertha Alvarez Manninen ; |t False cause: ignoring common cause / |r Bertha Alvarez Manninen ; |t False cause: post hoc ergo propter hoc / |r Bertha Alvarez Manninen ; |t False dilemma / |r Jennifer Culver ; |t Free speech / |r Scott Aikin and John Casey ; |t Guilt by association / |r Leigh Kolb ; |t Hasty generalization / |r Michael J. Muniz ; |t Intentional fallacy / |r Nicolas Michaud ; |t Is/ought fallacy / |r Mark T. Nelson ; |t Masked man / |r Charles Taliaferro ; |t Middle ground / |r Grant Sterling ; |t Mind projection / |r Charles Taliaferro ; |t Moralistic fallacy / |r Galen Foresman ; |t No true Scotsman / |r Tuomas W. Manninen ; |t Reification / |r Robert Sinclair ; |t Representative heuristic / |r David Kyle Johnson ; |t Slippery slope / |r Michael J. Muniz ; |t Stolen concept / |r Rory E. Kraft, Jr. ; |t Subjective validation / |r David Kyle Johnson ; |t Subjective fallacy / |r Frank Scalambrino ; |t Suppressed evidence / |r David Kyle Johnson ; |t Unfalsifiability / |r Jack Bowen ; |t Unwarranted assumption / |r Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray. |
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Hoboken, NJ : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2019 | ||
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Bad arguments : 100 of the most important fallacies in Western philosophy / / edited by Robert Arp, Steven Barbone, and Michael Bruce |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, NJ : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (452 pages) |
Disciplina | 165 |
Soggetto topico |
Fallacies (Logic)
Philosophy |
ISBN |
1-119-16580-6
1-119-16579-2 1-119-16581-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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Gli errori nelle dimostrazioni matematiche : imparare la matematica e la logica dagli errori (degli altri) [e-book] / Giorgio Balzarotti, Paolo P. Lava |
Autore | Balzarotti, Giorgio |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Milano : U. Hoepli, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 176 p.) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 511.3 |
Altri autori (Persone) | Lava, Paolo P. |
Soggetto topico |
Fallacies (Logic)
Mathematics - Problems, exercises, etc |
ISBN |
9788820358051
9788820343361 |
Classificazione |
LC QA459
AMS 03-01 AMS 03-XX |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ita |
Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991003819269707536 |
Balzarotti, Giorgio | ||
Milano : U. Hoepli, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento | ||
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Informal fallacies [[electronic resource] ] : towards a theory of argument criticisms / / Douglas N. Walton |
Autore | Walton Douglas N |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1987 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (346 p.) |
Disciplina | 165 |
Collana | Pragmatics & beyond companion series |
Soggetto topico |
Fallacies (Logic)
Logic |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-35890-5
9786613358905 90-272-7890-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
INFORMAL FALLACIES Towards a Theory of Argument Criticisms; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; CHAPTER 1: A NEW MODEL OF ARGUMENT; 1. Introduction to the Fallacies; 2. Some More Fallacies; 3. Fallacies Combined in Realistic Dialogues; 4. What is an Argument?; 5. Criticism as Challenge and Response; 6. Basic Categories of Argument Study; NOTES; CHAPTER TWO: HOT RHETORIC AND ARGUMENT; 1. Appeals to Popular Sentiment; 2. Appeals to Force; 3. Appeals to Pity; 4. Overly Personal Argumentation; 5. The Rhetorical Debate
6. Case Study: Parliamentary Debate1. THE ECONOMY MEASURES TO MAINTAIN EMPLOYMENT; 2. BANKS AND BANKING; 7. Conclusion; NOTES; CHAPTER 3: THE LOGIC OF PROPOSITIONS; 1. Deductive Validity; 2. Formal Logic; 3. Classical Propositional Calculus; 4. Applying Deductive Logic to Arguments; 5. Invalidity and Fallaciousness; 6. Relevance and Validit; 7. Subject-Matter Relatedness; 8. Relatedness Logic; 9. Semantics and Pragmatics; 10. What is a Fallacy?; NOTES; CHAPTER 4: LOGICAL DIALOGUE-GAMES; 1. Different Approaches to Formal Dialogues; 2. The Ad Ignorantiam Fallacy; 3. Fallacies of Question-Asking 4. The Fallacy of Many Questions5. Demanding Direct Answers to Questions; 6. Misconception of Refutation; 7. Case Studies of Political Debates; 8. A Game with Dark-Side Commitments; NOTES; CHAPTER 5: ENTHYMEMES; 1. The Tradition of Enthymemes; 2. The Objectives of Dialogue; 3. Veiled Commitment-Sets; 4. Strategy and Plausibility; 5. The Problem Resolved; 6. Order of the Premisses; 7. Multiple Premisses in Complex Arguments; NOTE; CHAPTER 6: LONGER SEQUENCES OF ARGUMENTATION; 1. Sequences of Argumentation; 2. Graphs of Arguments; 3. Case Study: Argument on Sex Education 4. Case Study: Circular Argumentation5. Plausibility Conditions on Arguments; 6. The Missing Links; 7. Conclusions on Circular Arguments; NOTES; CHAPTER 7: FALLACIOUS ARGUMENTS FROM AUTHORITY; 1. How Appeals to Authority Can Go Wrong; 2. Plausible Argument; 3. Where Experts Disagree; 4. Expertise and Legal Dialogue; 5. Dialogue and Expertise; 6. Conclusions; NOTE; CHAPTER 8: VARIOUS FALLACIES; 1. Inductive Fallacies; 2. Deductive and Inductive Arguments; 3. Post Hoc Arguments; 4. Slippery Slope; 5. Equivocation; 6. Amphiboly; 7. Composition and Division CHAPTER 9: ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE PERSON1. Poisoning the Well; 2. The Sportsman's Rejoinder; 3. Evaluating Ad Hominem Disputations; 4. Four Types of Circumstantial Ad Hominem; 5. Rhetorical Context of Ad Hominem Attacks; 6. Positional Defensibility; 7. Conclusion; NOTES; CHAPTER 10: EQUIVOCATION; 1. What is Equivocation?; 2. Vagueness and Criticisms of Equivocality; 3. The Problem of Subtle Equivocations; 4. Deep Deception and Equivocal Dialogue; 5. Many-Valued Logic for Equivocators; 6. Priest's System LP; 7. Applying LP to the Fallacy of Equivocation; 8. R-Mingle as a Logic for Equivocators 9. RM and Equivocation |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457559703321 |
Walton Douglas N | ||
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1987 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Informal fallacies : towards a theory of argument criticisms / / Douglas N. Walton |
Autore | Walton Douglas N |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1987 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 336 pages) |
Disciplina | 165 |
Collana | Pragmatics & beyond companion series |
Soggetto topico |
Fallacies (Logic)
Logic |
ISBN |
1-283-35890-5
9786613358905 90-272-7890-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
INFORMAL FALLACIES Towards a Theory of Argument Criticisms; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; CHAPTER 1: A NEW MODEL OF ARGUMENT; 1. Introduction to the Fallacies; 2. Some More Fallacies; 3. Fallacies Combined in Realistic Dialogues; 4. What is an Argument?; 5. Criticism as Challenge and Response; 6. Basic Categories of Argument Study; NOTES; CHAPTER TWO: HOT RHETORIC AND ARGUMENT; 1. Appeals to Popular Sentiment; 2. Appeals to Force; 3. Appeals to Pity; 4. Overly Personal Argumentation; 5. The Rhetorical Debate
6. Case Study: Parliamentary Debate 1. THE ECONOMY MEASURES TO MAINTAIN EMPLOYMENT; 2. BANKS AND BANKING; 7. Conclusion; NOTES; CHAPTER 3: THE LOGIC OF PROPOSITIONS; 1. Deductive Validity; 2. Formal Logic; 3. Classical Propositional Calculus; 4. Applying Deductive Logic to Arguments; 5. Invalidity and Fallaciousness; 6. Relevance and Validit; 7. Subject-Matter Relatedness; 8. Relatedness Logic; 9. Semantics and Pragmatics; 10. What is a Fallacy?; NOTES; CHAPTER 4: LOGICAL DIALOGUE-GAMES; 1. Different Approaches to Formal Dialogues; 2. The Ad Ignorantiam Fallacy; 3. Fallacies of Question-Asking 4. The Fallacy of Many Questions 5. Demanding Direct Answers to Questions; 6. Misconception of Refutation; 7. Case Studies of Political Debates; 8. A Game with Dark-Side Commitments; NOTES; CHAPTER 5: ENTHYMEMES; 1. The Tradition of Enthymemes; 2. The Objectives of Dialogue; 3. Veiled Commitment-Sets; 4. Strategy and Plausibility; 5. The Problem Resolved; 6. Order of the Premisses; 7. Multiple Premisses in Complex Arguments; NOTE; CHAPTER 6: LONGER SEQUENCES OF ARGUMENTATION; 1. Sequences of Argumentation; 2. Graphs of Arguments; 3. Case Study: Argument on Sex Education 4. Case Study: Circular Argumentation 5. Plausibility Conditions on Arguments; 6. The Missing Links; 7. Conclusions on Circular Arguments; NOTES; CHAPTER 7: FALLACIOUS ARGUMENTS FROM AUTHORITY; 1. How Appeals to Authority Can Go Wrong; 2. Plausible Argument; 3. Where Experts Disagree; 4. Expertise and Legal Dialogue; 5. Dialogue and Expertise; 6. Conclusions; NOTE; CHAPTER 8: VARIOUS FALLACIES; 1. Inductive Fallacies; 2. Deductive and Inductive Arguments; 3. Post Hoc Arguments; 4. Slippery Slope; 5. Equivocation; 6. Amphiboly; 7. Composition and Division CHAPTER 9: ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE PERSON 1. Poisoning the Well; 2. The Sportsman's Rejoinder; 3. Evaluating Ad Hominem Disputations; 4. Four Types of Circumstantial Ad Hominem; 5. Rhetorical Context of Ad Hominem Attacks; 6. Positional Defensibility; 7. Conclusion; NOTES; CHAPTER 10: EQUIVOCATION; 1. What is Equivocation?; 2. Vagueness and Criticisms of Equivocality; 3. The Problem of Subtle Equivocations; 4. Deep Deception and Equivocal Dialogue; 5. Many-Valued Logic for Equivocators; 6. Priest's System LP; 7. Applying LP to the Fallacy of Equivocation; 8. R-Mingle as a Logic for Equivocators; 9. RM and Equivocation |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781426603321 |
Walton Douglas N | ||
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1987 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Informal fallacies : towards a theory of argument criticisms / / Douglas N. Walton |
Autore | Walton Douglas N |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1987 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 336 pages) |
Disciplina | 165 |
Collana | Pragmatics & beyond companion series |
Soggetto topico |
Fallacies (Logic)
Logic |
ISBN |
1-283-35890-5
9786613358905 90-272-7890-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
INFORMAL FALLACIES Towards a Theory of Argument Criticisms; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; CHAPTER 1: A NEW MODEL OF ARGUMENT; 1. Introduction to the Fallacies; 2. Some More Fallacies; 3. Fallacies Combined in Realistic Dialogues; 4. What is an Argument?; 5. Criticism as Challenge and Response; 6. Basic Categories of Argument Study; NOTES; CHAPTER TWO: HOT RHETORIC AND ARGUMENT; 1. Appeals to Popular Sentiment; 2. Appeals to Force; 3. Appeals to Pity; 4. Overly Personal Argumentation; 5. The Rhetorical Debate
6. Case Study: Parliamentary Debate 1. THE ECONOMY MEASURES TO MAINTAIN EMPLOYMENT; 2. BANKS AND BANKING; 7. Conclusion; NOTES; CHAPTER 3: THE LOGIC OF PROPOSITIONS; 1. Deductive Validity; 2. Formal Logic; 3. Classical Propositional Calculus; 4. Applying Deductive Logic to Arguments; 5. Invalidity and Fallaciousness; 6. Relevance and Validit; 7. Subject-Matter Relatedness; 8. Relatedness Logic; 9. Semantics and Pragmatics; 10. What is a Fallacy?; NOTES; CHAPTER 4: LOGICAL DIALOGUE-GAMES; 1. Different Approaches to Formal Dialogues; 2. The Ad Ignorantiam Fallacy; 3. Fallacies of Question-Asking 4. The Fallacy of Many Questions 5. Demanding Direct Answers to Questions; 6. Misconception of Refutation; 7. Case Studies of Political Debates; 8. A Game with Dark-Side Commitments; NOTES; CHAPTER 5: ENTHYMEMES; 1. The Tradition of Enthymemes; 2. The Objectives of Dialogue; 3. Veiled Commitment-Sets; 4. Strategy and Plausibility; 5. The Problem Resolved; 6. Order of the Premisses; 7. Multiple Premisses in Complex Arguments; NOTE; CHAPTER 6: LONGER SEQUENCES OF ARGUMENTATION; 1. Sequences of Argumentation; 2. Graphs of Arguments; 3. Case Study: Argument on Sex Education 4. Case Study: Circular Argumentation 5. Plausibility Conditions on Arguments; 6. The Missing Links; 7. Conclusions on Circular Arguments; NOTES; CHAPTER 7: FALLACIOUS ARGUMENTS FROM AUTHORITY; 1. How Appeals to Authority Can Go Wrong; 2. Plausible Argument; 3. Where Experts Disagree; 4. Expertise and Legal Dialogue; 5. Dialogue and Expertise; 6. Conclusions; NOTE; CHAPTER 8: VARIOUS FALLACIES; 1. Inductive Fallacies; 2. Deductive and Inductive Arguments; 3. Post Hoc Arguments; 4. Slippery Slope; 5. Equivocation; 6. Amphiboly; 7. Composition and Division CHAPTER 9: ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE PERSON 1. Poisoning the Well; 2. The Sportsman's Rejoinder; 3. Evaluating Ad Hominem Disputations; 4. Four Types of Circumstantial Ad Hominem; 5. Rhetorical Context of Ad Hominem Attacks; 6. Positional Defensibility; 7. Conclusion; NOTES; CHAPTER 10: EQUIVOCATION; 1. What is Equivocation?; 2. Vagueness and Criticisms of Equivocality; 3. The Problem of Subtle Equivocations; 4. Deep Deception and Equivocal Dialogue; 5. Many-Valued Logic for Equivocators; 6. Priest's System LP; 7. Applying LP to the Fallacy of Equivocation; 8. R-Mingle as a Logic for Equivocators; 9. RM and Equivocation |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818954503321 |
Walton Douglas N | ||
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1987 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Informal logical fallacies [[electronic resource] ] : a brief guide / / Jacob E. Van Vleet |
Autore | Van Vleet Jacob E |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, MD, : University Press of America, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (82 p.) |
Disciplina | 128.33 |
Soggetto topico |
Fallacies (Logic)
Critical thinking |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
9786613912411
1-283-59996-1 0-7618-5434-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One: Linguistic Fallacies; 1.1 Fallacy of division; 1.2 Fallacy of composition; 1.3 Vagueness; 1.4 Equivocation; 1.5 Weak analogy; 1.6 Pseudo-Profundity; Chapter Two: Fallacies of Omission; 2.1 Bifurcation; 2.2 False dilemma; 2.3 Argumentum ad ignorantiam; 2.4 Shifting the burden of proof; 2.5 Straw argument; 2.6 Reductionism; 2.7 Perfectionist fallacy; 2.8 Fallacy of the unknowable fact; 2.9 Willed ignorance; Chapter Three: Fallacies of Intrusion; 3.1 Argumentum ad hominem, abusive
3.2 Argumentum ad hominem, circumstantial 3.3 Argumentum ad hominem, post mortem; 3.4 Argumentum ad verecundiam; 3.5 Argumentum ad baculum; 3.6 Appeal to common knowledge; 3.7 Genetic fallacy; 3.8 Argumentum ad populum; 3.9 Appeal to tradition; 3.10 Tu Quoque; 3.11 Two wrongs make a right; 3.12 Red herring; 3.13 Argumentum ad crumenam; 3.14 Argumentum ad misericordiam; Chapter Four: Fallacies with Built-In Assumptions; 4.1 Petitio principii; 4.2 Complex question; 4.3 Appeal to human nature; 4.4 Is-Ought fallacy; 4.5 Projection; 4.6 Narcissist fallacy; 4.7 Anthropomorphism 4.8 Subjectivist fallacy Chapter Five: Causal Fallacies; 5.1 Fallacy of the false cause; 5.2 Fallacy of the single cause; 5.3 Post hoc ergo propter hoc; 5.4 Slippery slope; 5.5 Gambler's fallacy; 5.6 Appeal to consequences; Appendix 1: Five Argument Forms; Appendix II: Exercises; Appendix III: Characteristics of Critical Thinking; Glossary; Recommended Reading; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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Van Vleet Jacob E | ||
Lanham, MD, : University Press of America, c2011 | ||
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