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informal logic

Before You Accuse Somebody of the Strawman Fallacy

December 28, 2020 by Randal

You don’t accuse somebody of lying just because they said something that is false. The accusation of lying is only justified if you have good evidence that they knew that what they were saying is false at the time that they said it and that they said it with the intention of persuading someone else […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: informal logic, strawman

False Analogies or the Fallacy Fallacy?

December 19, 2015 by Randal

In my review of Why Brilliant People Believe Nonsense I pointed out that Steve and Cherie Miller included a fascinating chapter in which Steve critiques what he calls the “Fallacy Fallacy”. He explains this fallacy as follows: “I often read comments on blog posts or articles or Facebook discussions which accuse the writer of committing […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: argument by analogy, dialogue, fallacy fallacy, informal logic, logical fallacies

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