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Informal Fallacies, Texas State University page on informal fallacies; Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies (mirror) Visualization: Rhetological Fallacies, Information is Beautiful; Master List of Logical Fallacies, University of Texas at El Paso; Fallacies, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
List-length effect: A smaller percentage of items are remembered in a longer list, but as the length of the list increases, the absolute number of items remembered increases as well. [163] Memory inhibition: Being shown some items from a list makes it harder to retrieve the other items (e.g., Slamecka, 1968). Misinformation effect
All horses are the same color: A fallacious argument by induction that appears to prove that all horses are the same color. Ant on a rubber rope : An ant crawling on a rubber rope can reach the end even when the rope stretches much faster than the ant can crawl.
Material fallacies are not logical errors because the conclusion follows from the premises. He then divided the logical group into two groups: purely logical and semi-logical. The semi-logical group included all of Aristotle's sophisms except ignoratio elenchi, petitio principii, and non causa pro causa, which are in the material group. [25]
While a logical argument is a non sequitur if, and only if, it is invalid, the term "non sequitur" typically refers to those types of invalid arguments which do not constitute formal fallacies covered by particular terms (e.g., affirming the consequent). In other words, in practice, "non sequitur" refers to an unnamed formal fallacy.
Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies; forall x: an introduction to formal logic, by P.D. Magnus, covers sentential and quantified logic; Translation Tips, by Peter Suber, for translating from English into logical notation; Math & Logic: The history of formal mathematical, logical, linguistic and methodological ideas. In The Dictionary of the History ...
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