Author: Douglas Walton
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401586322
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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We are happy to present to the reader the first book of our Applied Logic Series. Walton's book on the fallacies of ambiguity is firmly at the heart of practical reasoning, an important part of applied logic. There is an increasing interest in artifIcial intelligence, philosophy, psychol ogy, software engineering and linguistics, in the analysis and possible mechanisation of human practical reasoning. Continuing the ancient quest that began with Aristotle, computer scientists, logicians, philosophers and linguists are vigorously seeking to deepen our understanding of human reasoning and argumentation. Significant communities of researchers are actively engaged in developing new approaches to logic and argumentation, which are better suited to the urgent needs of today's applications. The author of this book has, over many years, made significant contributions to the detailed analysis of practical reasoning case studies, thus providing solid foundations for new and more applicable formal logical systems. We welcome Doug Walton's new book to our series.
Author: Douglas N. Walton
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027278903
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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The basic question of this monograph is: how should we go about judging arguments to be reasonable or unreasonable? Our concern will be with argument in a broad sense, with realistic arguments in natural language. The basic object will be to engage in a normative study of determining what factors, standards, or procedures should be adopted or appealed to in evaluating an argument as “good,” “not-so-good,” “open to criticism,” “fallacious,” and so forth. Hence our primary concern will be with the problems of how to criticize an argument, and when a criticism is reasonably justified.
Author: Hans V. Hansen
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027104294X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Since 1970, when Charles Hamblin issued a challenge for philosophers, logicians, and educators in general to begin work anew in fallacies, a serious literature on fallacies has indeed developed. Part of this literature deals with the theory of what fallacies are; another part of it contains rigorous analyses of particular fallacies. However, most is still not readily accessible to the researcher, teacher, or student of the field. As a result, the best work on fallacies is not finding its way into the classroom, nor is it informing the educational and intellectual experiences available to most college and university students. A major purpose of this book is to make the post-Hamblin work on fallacies available to a wider audience in a single, convenient volume. The editors have brought together for the first time the most important historical writings on fallacy theory, from Aristotle to John Stuart Mill, and the most recent and most important theoretical and pedagogical developments in the field since Hamblin's landmark 1970 book. All but a few of the essays included are new contributions for this anthology, and an extensive annotated bibliography is included for researchers and students of fallacies and fallacy theory.
Author: Alfred Sidgwick
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230262062
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...Psychology, vol. i. p. 97. " The best words are those from which long use has worn away all, or nearly all, traces of their origin." It is easy, however, in this manner to enumerate a few of the leading ways in which assertions may be misunderstood, and even to write a loose and general homily upon human liability to error in this respect. But there seems to me very little practical value in so doing. The practical question would be, --What is it incumbent on us to do, for the purpose of detecting, and so avoiding, misinterpretation? And to answer this with any real completeness would lead us further afield than we can here afford to go. But as regards the first of the two kinds of misunderstanding, it may perhaps be suggested as a broad general rule that inquiry into meaning, for the purpose of raising the objection that R is beside the point, is only advisable where the person inquiring has himself a definite view, if not of all the possible ambiguities involved, at least of the fact that some given ambiguity is probable. It is true that in this way much false argument would pass unnoticed, but the only alternative seems to be a loss of more time than the results would probably justify. If in every case where an assertion is made and grounded, it were to become at once incumbent on us simply to assume, until the contrary was shown, that some irrelevance was present between R and T, it is clear that the waste of time would be on the whole enormous. Although Ignoratio elenchi may be the commonest of all fallacies, and although, perhaps, some slight shade of uncertainty as to our meaning is present in nearly all assertions actually made, nothing would, I think, be practically gained by treating intelligent assertion as the exception, verbal...
Author: Charles Leonard Hamblin
Publisher:
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Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Author: W. Ward Fearnside
Publisher:
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Category : Fallacies (Logic)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Author: Prasamma Kumar Ray
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Author: P. K. Ray
Publisher:
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Category : Logic
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Author: P. K. Ray
Publisher:
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Category : Logic
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Author: Peter Coffey
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Category : Logic
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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