A Concise Introduction to Logic

Hurley, P. J. (2014). A Concise Introduction to Logic.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2014

Link

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cognitive_science

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Primes

• Equivocation
  • The classic syllogism "Nothing is better than eternal happiness; a ham sandwich is better than nothing; therefore a ham sandwich is better than eternal happiness" is equivocation displayed in its purest form.

    This sourceStandard logic textbook defining the fallacy of equivocation (a word used in two distinct senses across an argument), the diagnostic of tracking the shifting term, and disambiguation as the corrective — covers the classic 'nothing'/quantifier-vs-substantive ambiguity exemplified by the ham-sandwich syllogism.

Domain-specific

• Cherry Picking
  • Cherry picking — also "the fallacy of incomplete evidence" or "suppressed evidence" — is the argumentative practice of selectively presenting confirming evidence while suppressing disconfirming evidence from the same available population, such that the offered sample gives an audience an impression that the full distribution of evidence would not support.

    This sourceCatalogues 'suppressed evidence' as a named informal fallacy of presumption in the standard introductory treatment - an argument whose premises are accurate but which conceals available evidence that would count against its conclusion.

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