Notes on Introduction to Logic -- Phil A101

William Jamison - Instructor

Lecture 5:

4. Fallacies.

What Is a Fallacy? Fallacies of Relevance. Fallacies of Presumption. Fallacies of Ambiguity.

 

Here is a wonderful web page that describes fallacies.

 

One way I think about fallacies that seems to help make them interesting is to think about jokes. Generally, it seems that what makes jokes funny is that they are fallacious arguments.

 

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