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- In fallacy: Formal fallacies
” Formal fallacies are deductively invalid arguments that typically commit an easily recognizable logical error. A classic case is Aristotle’s fallacy of the consequent, relating to reasoning from premises of the form “If p1, then p2.” The fallacy has two forms: (1) denial of…
Read More - In applied logic: Formal fallacies
Deductive logic is the study of the structure of deductively valid arguments—i.e., those whose structure is such that the truth of the premises guarantees the truth of the conclusion. Because the rules of inference of deductive logic are definitory, there cannot exist a…
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