logic
The four-question fallacy check
taught
Run four questions on a suspect argument: are the reasons relevant, are they enough, is something assumed, is language doing the work?
Taught in
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What makes a fallacy
Introduction to Logic
Requires
- formal-vs-informal-fallacies required
Required by
- Ad hominem required
- Appeal to emotion required
- Appeal to force required
- Appeal to ignorance required
- Appeal to inappropriate authority required
- Appeal to popularity required
- Begging the question (circular reasoning) required
- Equivocation required
- False dilemma required
- Hasty generalization required
- Loaded (complex) question required
- Post hoc (after this, therefore because of this) required
- Red herring required
- Straw man required
- The fallacy of composition required
- The genetic fallacy required
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Local knowledge map
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