Fallacies Arising from Ambiguity

Walton, D. (1996). Fallacies Arising from Ambiguity. Kluwer Academic.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1996

DOI

10.1007/978-94-015-8632-0

ISBN

9789048147175

DOI registrant

Springer Nature

Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8632-0

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Domain-specific

• If-by-Whiskey
  • The single discriminator is whether the speaker specifies which conditional applies to the case at hand — supply that index and the construction resolves into honest stipulation, withhold it and the non-answer stands. Not the ordinary equivocation fallacy. Standard equivocation exploits a term's ambiguity covertly within a single inference, sliding between senses without acknowledgement

    This sourceA monograph on fallacies arising from ambiguity, with a chapter devoted to equivocation.

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    “Equivocation Douglas Walton Pages 37-76”

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Mechanisms

• Comparison-Class Review Memo
  • Its central target is equivocation

    This sourceDefines equivocation as an ambiguity fallacy in which a term changes sense within an argument.

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