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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Logical fallacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A logical fallacy may mean nothing more than a fallacy or it may mean an error in deductive reasoning, i.e., a formal fallacy.
In the latter case, it is a flaw in the structure of a deductive argument as opposed to an error in the premises.
Recognizing fallacies in everyday arguments may be difficult since arguments are often imbedded in rhetorical patterns that obscure the logical connections between statements.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Logical_fallacy   (837 words)

  
 List of fallacy pages:F - EvoWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Fallacy of Argument from Ignorance - "absence of evidence is evidence of absence"
Fallacy of Drawing an Affirmative Conclusion From a Negative Premise - "Some (or all) A are (not) B; some (or all) B are (not) C; therefore some (or all) A are C", with at least one "not"
Fallacy of the Disjunctive Syllogism - "A or B is false; A is false, therefore B is true"
wiki.cotch.net /index.php/List_of_fallacy_pages:F   (1585 words)

  
 Logical fallacy - Gurupedia
A logical fallacy is an error in logical argument which is independent of the truth of the premises.
Fallacies are used frequently by pundits in the
In the opposite direction is the fallacy of argument from authority.
www.gurupedia.com /l/lo/logical_fallacy.htm   (1760 words)

  
 Foreknowledge and Free Will [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
The upshot is that the premises of the argument for Epistemic Determinism (i.e.
The fallacy occurs in its assigning the modality of impossibility, not to the relationship between the truth of
And the ancillary argument that a proposition's being true prior to the occurrence of the event it describes causes the future event to occur turns on a confusion (i) of the truth-making (semantic) relation between an event and its description with (ii) the causal relation between two events.
www.iep.utm.edu /f/foreknow.htm   (11240 words)

  
 SEP: Actualism
Modal logic is the logic of possibility and necessity and the study of modal logic, as a discipline, has flourished in the latter half of the twentieth century.
That is, the rules of inference permit one to infer only (logical) truths from any set of premises consisting solely of (logical) truths.
According to proponents of the no-worlds account, the fallacy of both ersatzism and possibilism is the inference that things must work in largely the same way with regard to Kripke models.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/actualism   (14016 words)

  
 Global Politician
Cannibalism in nature is widespread and serves diverse purposes such as population control (chickens, salamanders, toads), food and protein security in conditions of scarcity (hippopotamuses, scorpions, certain types of dinosaurs), threat avoidance (rabbits, mice, rats, and hamsters), and the propagation of genetic material through exclusive mating (Red-back spider and many mantids).
The premises - both explicit and implicit - are axiomatic and, therefore, shaky.
There is a prescriptive fallacy involved, as well:
www.globalpolitician.com /articledes.asp?ID=745&cid=12&sid=53   (2079 words)

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