Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic¶
Haack, S. (1996). Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic: Beyond the Formalism. University of Chicago Press.
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- False Dilemma
- It pairs naturally with reasoning about discreteness and quantization — a false dilemma is the fallacy of discretizing too aggressively in argument — and with the excluded-middle principle, which is valid for two genuinely exclusive and exhaustive propositions but mis-applied when imported into a domain whose options are neither.
This sourceExamines the law of excluded middle and bivalence and the consequences of importing them into graded or vague domains, supporting the claim that excluded middle is valid for two exclusive-and-exhaustive propositions but misapplied on a continuum.
- It pairs naturally with reasoning about discreteness and quantization — a false dilemma is the fallacy of discretizing too aggressively in argument — and with the excluded-middle principle, which is valid for two genuinely exclusive and exhaustive propositions but mis-applied when imported into a domain whose options are neither.
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