Benson, Sung (2012) Logical fallacies and its application. Orange Apple, Delhi, India. ISBN 9788132326816
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Abstract
In logic and rhetoric, a fallacy is incorrect reasoning in argumentation resulting in a misconception. By accident or design, fallacies may exploit emotional triggers in the listener or interlocutor (e.g. appeal to emotion), or take advantage of social relationships between people (e.g. argument from authority). Fallacious arguments are often structured using rhetorical patterns that obscure the logical argument, making fallacies more difficult to diagnose. Also, the components of the fallacy may be spread out over separate arguments. The logical fallacy of accident ( also called destroying the exception or a dicto simpliciter ad dictum secundum quid) is a deductive fallacy occurring in statistical syllogisms (an argument based on a generalization) when an exception to a rule of thumb is ignored. It is one of the thirteen fallacies originally identified by Aristotle. The fallacy occurs when one attempts to apply a general rule to an irrelevant situation. For instance: 1. Cutting people with a knife is a crime. 2. Surgeons cut people with knives. 3. Surgeons are criminals. incidents that are obviously exceptions. It is easy to construct fallacious arguments by applying general statements to specific. Generalizations that are weak generally have more exceptions (the number of exceptions to the generalization need not be a minority of cases) and vice versa This fallacy may occur when we confuse generalizations ("some") for categorical statements ("always and everywhere ") . It may be encouraged when not qualifying words like "some", "many", "rarely" etc. are used to mark the generalization.
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| Depositing User: | Esam @ Hisham Muhammad |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Nov 2022 09:05 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Nov 2022 09:05 |
| URI: | http://odlsystem2.utm.my/id/eprint/3690 |
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