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{{Short description|Informal fallacy}} A '''fallacy of illicit transference''' is an [[informal fallacy]] occurring when an argument assumes there is no difference between ...

{{about|the legal concept|a rebuttal used in informal logic|Counterargument}} ...nformal process by which statements, designed to refute or negate specific arguments (see [[Counterclaim]]) put forward by opponents, are deployed in the media. ...

{{short description|Informal logical fallacy}} ...gument from incredulity)|accessdate=5 April 2013}}</ref> is a [[fallacy in informal logic]]. It asserts that a proposition must be false because it contradict ...

{{short description|Informal fallacy}} ...11.ch76 |last=Barbone |first=Stephen |chapter=Converse Accident |title=Bad Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Fallacies in Western Philosophy |date=2018 |publ ...

...uments, arguments from verbal classification, arguments from definition or arguments to definition. ...ub Prus] and other logicians. There are three most basic types of semantic arguments, which have different [[argumentation scheme]]s, but all modify meaning to ...

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{{short description|Fallacy in informal logic}} ...rage of objections''' and '''banal objections''') is an [[Informal fallacy|informal logical fallacy]] where irrelevant and sometimes frivolous objections are m ...

The '''animistic fallacy''' is the [[informal fallacy]] of arguing that an event or situation necessarily arose because s ...well]] in his book ''[[Knowledge and Decisions]]'' (1980) presents several arguments as examples of the animistic fallacy:<ref name="Sowell"/> ...

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...onal relationship. These conflicts may range from minor arguments to major arguments. Sex under these circumstances may be more gratifying and invested with add ...

{{Short description|Informal fallacy}} The '''homunculus argument''' is an [[informal fallacy]] whereby a concept is explained in terms of the concept itself, [[ ...

...ver, in categorizing consequences as either desirable or undesirable, such arguments inherently contain subjective [[perspective (cognitive)|points of view]]. ...do not exist yet in the present) and abstract [[ethics]], and in fact such arguments are the cornerstones of many moral theories, particularly related to [[cons ...

...Irwin|T.H. Irwin]], "It is characteristic of the eristic to think of some arguments as a way of defeating the other side, by showing that an opponent must asse ...s]] and [[Dionysodorus (sophist)|Dionysiodoros]]. Students learned eristic arguments to "refute their opponent, no matter whether he [said] yes or no in answer ...

...University of Windsor. Walton's work has been used to better prepare legal arguments and to help develop artificial intelligence. ...contributions to informal logic and argumentation theory up to 2006.<ref>''Informal Logic'', 27(1), 2007.</ref><ref>A [[festschrift]] honoring his contribution ...

== Explanations vs. arguments == ...xplanation Complementarity and the Structure of Informal Reasoning|journal=Informal Logic|url=https://www.csus.edu/indiv/m/mayesgr/Scribble/Explanation%20Stuff ...

...l relativism]]) are themselves committing a commonly identified fallacy of informal logic—namely, [[Logical fallacy/Begging the question|begging the question]] ...ed by Alice: "More Americans than ever are overweight." One may introduce arguments for and against this proposition, based upon such things as standards of st ...

{{Short description|Informal fallacy}} ...[[fallacies of definition]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}} It is an [[informal fallacy]].<ref name="Chadwick"/> ...

==Informal proof of impossibility== ...where the line goes when it is outside a particular room. Therefore, these arguments apply to all solutions that obey the rules. Again, for the rooms with five ...

...id=QZVHBAAAQBAJ&dq=argumentum%20ad%20baculum&pg=PT12 |title=Scare Tactics: Arguments that Appeal to Fear and Threats |isbn=978-94-017-2940-6 |last1=Walton |firs [[Category:Informal fallacies]] ...