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	Fallacy - Psychology Wiki - a Wikia wiki
		A fallacy is a component of an argument that is demonstrably flawed in its logic or form, thus rendering the argument invalid (except in the case of begging the question) in whole.
		Fallacy of Accident (also called destroying the exception or a dicto simpliciter ad dictum secundum quid) meaning to argue erroneously from a general rule to a particular case, without proper regard to particular conditions that vitiate the application of the general rule; e.g.
		Fallacy of Many Questions (Plurium Interrogationum), wherein several questions are improperly grouped in the form of one, and a direct categorical answer is demanded, e.g.
	psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Fallacy (2479 words)

	Homunculus fallacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the psychology and philosophy of mind, 'homunculus arguments' (or the 'homunculus fallacies') are extremely useful for detecting where theories of mind fail or are incomplete.
		Homunculus arguments are common in the theory of vision.
		The example of Ryle's theory demonstrates another aspect of the Homunculus Argument in which it is possible to attribute to the mind various properties such as 'internal reflection' that are not universally accepted and use these contentiously to declare that a theory of mind (for example cognitivism) is invalid.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homunculus_fallacy (576 words)

	Logical fallacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A logical fallacy is an error in logical argument which is independent of the truth of the premises.
		It is a flaw in the structure of an argument as opposed to an error in its premises.
		Recognizing fallacies in practical arguments may be difficult since arguments are often structured using rhetorical patterns that obscure the logical connections between assertions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Logical_fallacy (843 words)

	Homunculus fallacy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A (A tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell) homunculus argument accounts for a phenomenon in terms of the very phenomenon that it is supposed to explain.
		Homunculus arguments are always (Click link for more info and facts about fallacious) fallacious.
		Homunculus arguments are common in the theory of (A vivid mental image) vision.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/Ho/Homunculus_fallacy.htm (548 words)

	Logical fallacies - FairWiki.org
		This fallacy argues that because of the negative consequences of accepting a premise, the premise must therefore be false.
		This fallacy draws a false conclusion about a group because the members of the group studied are not typical of the group as a whole.
		This fallacy often involves or is related to the error of presentism.
	fairwiki.org /index.php/Logical_fallacies (9225 words)

	Logical Fallacy Examples Of Fallacious Arguments Example 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A logical fallacy is an error in logical argument which is independent of the truth of the premise s.
		Recognizing fallacies in practical arguments may be difficult since arguments are often structured using rhetoric al patterns that obscure the logical connections between assertions.
		Fallacies are used frequently by pundit s in the media and politics.
	www.masterliness.com /a/Fallacies.htm (2124 words)

	Logical fallacy - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Appropriately, since it plays on an ambiguity, this sort of fallacy is called the fallacy of equivocation, that is, equating two incompatible terms or claims.
		Fallacies are used frequently by pundits in the media and politics.
		By definition, arguments with logical fallacies are invalid, but they can often be (re)written in such a way that they fit a valid argument form.
	www.iridis.com /Fallacy (1873 words)

	Logical fallacy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A logical fallacy is an error in (The methodical process of logical reasoning) logical argument which is independent of the truth of the (A statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn) premise s.
		Recognizing fallacies in practical arguments may be difficult since arguments are often structured using (Study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)) rhetoric al patterns that obscure the logical connections between assertions.
		Fallacies are used frequently by (Someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field) pundit s in the (Click link for more info and facts about media) media and (The study of government of states and other political units) politics.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/logical_fallacy.htm (3609 words)

	Encyclopedia: Representationalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A problem with representationalism is that if it assumes that something in the brain, described as a homunculus, is viewing the perception, this suggests that some physical effect or phenomenon other than simple data flow and information processing must be involved in perception.
		This was not an issue for the rationalist philosophers such as Descartes, since dualism held that there is indeed a 'homunculus' in the form of the mind.
		Hartsoekers homunculus The concept of a homunculus (Latin for little man, sometimes spelled homonculus) is often used to illustrate the functioning of a system.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Representationalism (863 words)

	Who Is My Homunculus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I understand what Searle says about the nature of the homunculur fallacy in general, namely that the recursive decomposition notion never really evades the 'observer relative' fetter (even at the lowest state of either a simple manipulation 1 or a 0, an observer is still necessary).
		For example, he says that the user of a personal computer is the homunculus in question.
		Firstly, our ability to be a true Homunculus is not spread throughout every activity of the computer; it is limited to our own knowledge in responding to the needs of a computer to function, which is input.
	philosophy.wisc.edu /554/_disc3/00000040.htm (256 words)

	Logical fallacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A logical fallacy is an error in logical argument which is independent of the truth of the premises.
		When there is a fallacy in an argument it is said to be invalid.
		Recognizing fallacies in practical arguments may be difficult since arguments are often structured using rhetorical patterns that obscure the Logical connections between assertions.
	logical-fallacy.area51.ipupdater.com (1934 words)

	Is the Brain a Digital Computer?
		Without a homunculus that stands outside the recursive decomposition, we do not even have a syntax to operate with The attempt to eliminate the homunculus fallacy through recursive decomposition fails, because the only way to get the syntax intrinsic to the physics is to put a homunculus in the physics.
		Similarly in the case of the mechanical computer the whole system includes an outside homunculus, and with the homunculus the system is both causal and logical; logical because the homunculus provides an interpretation to the the processes of the machine; and causal because the hardware of the machine causes it to go through the processes.
		The humunculus fallacy is endemic to computational models of cognition and cannot be removed by the standard recursive decomposition arguments.
	www.ecs.soton.ac.uk /~harnad/Papers/Py104/searle.comp.html (8203 words)

	Logical fallacy - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the strictest sense, a logical fallacy is the incorrect application of a valid logical principle or an application of a nonexistent principle:
		Indeed, fallacies very often lay in unstated assumptions or implied premises in arguments that are not always obvious at first glance.
		The challenge to the interlocutor is, of course, to discover the false premise, that is the premise which makes the argument unsound.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Logical_fallacy (2013 words)

	NEUROPHYSIOLOGY AND MENTAL FUNCTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This "little person" is technically known as a homunculus and this model of how the brain works is known as "the fallacy of the homunculus".
		We are also left with a silly infinite regression of homunculi, since each homunculus would need a tiny homunculus in his or her head.
		If there is no homunculus in the brain there may be many different control centers or, at least, control centers may compete for control of action on the basis of competing inputs from different areas of the brain.
	www.benbest.com /science/anatmind/anatmd8.html (5857 words)

	C*SF: Little Man Inside Your Brain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)*
		In occult philosophy, the homunculus is an entity that is used to explain the functioning of a system, such as a human being, or a collective body of human beings.
		He becomes a homunculus outside a homunculus of his own, ad infinitum, all the way down.
		For instance, the homunculus continues to be considered as one of the major theories on the origin of consciousness, that there is a part (or process) in the brain whose purpose is to be "you".
	desimediabitch.blogspot.com /2005/06/little-man-inside-your-brain.html (688 words)

	Is the Brain a Digital Computer?
		Without a homunculus that stands outside the recursive decomposition, we do not even have a syntax to operate with The attempt to eliminate the homunculus fallacy through recursive decomposition fails, because the only way to get the syntax intrinsic to the physics is to put a homunculus in the physics.
		Similarly in the case of the mechanical computer the whole system includes an outside homunculus, and with the homunculus the system is both causal and logical; logical because the homunculus provides an interpretation to the the processes of the machine; and causal because the hardware of the machine causes it to go through the processes.
		The humunculus fallacy is endemic to computational models of cognition and cannot be removed by the standard recursive decomposition arguments.
	instruct.westvalley.edu /lafave/is_brain_a_computer.html (8357 words)

	Notes: 9/24 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Undistributed Middle Fallacy : People assume when A = C and B = C, than A = B, but this is not true.
		Homunculus Problem: The Òlittle manÓ in our head running the show.
		This is a fallacy: circular processing, never answer questions.
	psych.colorado.edu /~colunga/CTnotes/notes-0924-kara.html (212 words)

	Homunculus fallacy. Everything you wanted to know about Homunculus fallacy but had no clue how to find it.. Learn about ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Everything you wanted to know about Homunculus fallacy but had no clue how to find it..
		philosophy of mind, 'homunculus arguments' (or the 'homunculus fallacies') are extremely useful for detecting where theories of mind fail or are incomplete.
		A more sophisticated argument might propose that the images on the retinas are transferred to the visual
	encyclopedia.lockergnome.com /s/b/Homunculus_fallacy (613 words)

	HR Course Template
		Hasty generalization is the fallacy of examining just one or very few examples or studying a single case, and generalizing that to be representative of the whole class of objects or phenomena.
		This form of argument is a fallacy if the predicate ("putting sugar on porridge") is not actually contradictory to the accepted definition of the subject ("Scotsman"), or if the definition of the subject is silently adjusted after the fact to make the rebuttal work.
		It is also a common fallacy in politics, in which critics may condemn their colleagues as not being "true" liberals or conservatives simply because they occasionally disagree on certain matters of policy.
	www.mediumismessage.com /HR.htm (16263 words)

	Citebase - Towards a theory of consciousness: Proposal for the resolution of the homunculus fallacy with predictions
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		Towards a theory of consciousness: Proposal for the resolution of the homunculus fallacy with predictions
		We argue that the cornerstone of any model on consciousness is to (partly) overcome the obstacle of the homunculus fallacy about the use of representations.
	citebase.eprints.org /cgi-bin/citations?id=oai:arXiv.org:nlin/0303042 (615 words)

	Department of Philosophy, Elmhurst College: Dr. William Hirstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is perhaps the existence of this brain process which contacts conscious states and produces an awareness of them which leads to the tendency in everyday talk to lapse into a perceptual model of introspection: The bare conscious state is like the object of perception, and the other process is like a perceiver.
		We would have a homunculus (Latin for "little man") inside the head; and now there is a conscious state inside this inner perceiver.
		The homunculus objection commits the fallacy of false analogy: it misinterprets the analogy between perception and introspection, in the same way that one would misunderstand Bohr's analogy between the atom and the solar system if one were to look for a self-luminous star at the center of an atom.
	elmhurst.edu /%7Ephl/hirrescons13.html (2153 words)

	Footnotes for "Turin, Part 2" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The homunculus fallacy is the ascribing to a 'little man'—a homunculus—somewhere within a system such intelligence as the system seems to display, only to raise the question of where the homunculus himself gets that property.
		When the answer is that the homunculus, in turn, has an even littler man within himself, it is evident we are dealing with a problem of infinite regression.
		The man in the Chinese room, however, is not a homunculus; he is not introduced in order to account for the intelligence apparently at work in that room, so the question of accounting for his intelligence does not arise.
	www.rules-of-the-game.com /com006-footnotes.htm (238 words)

	Modelling the 'Homunculus'
		This fallacy claims that all levels of abstraction require at least one further level to become the corresponding interpreter.
		To the best of our knowledge, this formulation of the fallacy has not been questioned except in our previous work, where the fallacy was turned upside down by changing the roles: Not the internal representation but the input should make sense.
		In turn, the infinite regression is transformed into a converging iteration, and a route has been opened to reduce the fallacy to the problems of stability and convergence.
	www.ercim.org /publication/Ercim_News/enw53/lorincz.html (900 words)

	Logical fallacies - FairWiki.org
		This fallacy seeks to discredit an opponent by questioning his/her motives.
		This fallacy attempts to discredit a person before their arguments are even heard.
		This fallacy uses an unrelated issue to distract the audience's attention.
	www.fairwiki.org /index.php/Logical_falacies (9209 words)

	Outline of the problems
		The fallacy of the "Homunculus" curled up in the brain, looking at the picture is well known (Figure #1).
		We would need another homunculus looking at what the first one sees, leading to an infinite regress.
		There is no evidence that we have scattered cells at higher cortical levels in topographic form any where at all.
	www.holographicbrain.com /Book/ch1outline.htm (961 words)

	c-realm [.comix] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		homunculus (from Latin, 'little man'_, a miniature adult held to inhabit the brain (or some other organ) who perceives all the inputs to the sense organs and initiates all the commands to the muscles.
		Any theory that posits such an internal agent risks an infinite regress (sometimes called the homunculus fallacy), since we can ask whether there is a little man in the little man's head, responsible for his perception and action, and so on.
		It is never an easy matter to determine whether a theory is committed to the existence of a homunculus that vitiates the theory, and in some circumstances, homunculi can be legitimately posited at intermediate levels of theory: "Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain.
	www.c-realm.com /comix/homunculus_cdp.cgi (288 words)

	'The Emperor's New Mind': An Exchange - The New York Review of Books
		(The homunculus fallacy is the fallacy of explaining our mental processes by tacitly postulating a "little man," a homunculus, in our heads who is having those thought processes for us.) On several occasions (e.g., on p.
		So if we even consider the possibility that, as he puts it, "the representation is used in analog computing" we have to attribute some mental capacity to the brain that stands outside the representation and could use it as a representation.
		This is the familiar form of the homunculus fallacy.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/3599 (3573 words)

	DovBear: A Guest Post by Mis-Nagid
		The fallacy of attributing the unexplained to deities is so common that it got its own name: the divine fallacy.
		This offends those who have been making a good living off of the people's divine fallacy, and they put up a valiant but fruitless fight every time the fallacy's constituency is shrunk.
		Needless to say, the epigenesists were correct, and, once solved, the fuss faded from memory (quick, what's a homunculus?).
	dovbear.blogspot.com /2005/07/guest-post-by-mis-nagid.html (777 words)

	DATE: February 26, 1997
		But in cognitive science, if we say we are giving an information processing explanation of the agent's cognitive processes we cannot accept an explanation in which the agent's information processing only exists relative to his intentionality, because we then have not explained the intentionality on which all of his cognitive processes depend.
		If it is observer independent then we have to postulate a homunculus inside the brain who is actually manipulating the symbols so as to carry out the computation, just as I am consciously manipulating arabic numerals when I add 2 plus 2 to get 4.
		We can say that, but if we do we have abandoned the model, because now the explanatory mechanism is not the algorithm, but the mental agent inside who is intentionally going through the steps of the algorithm.
	humanities.ucsc.edu /NEH/searle2.htm (10573 words)

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