Introduction to Logic¶
Copi, I. M., Cohen, Carl, & McMahon, K. (2011). Introduction to Logic. Pearson.
Cited by¶
5 citations across 5 artifacts.
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Domain-specific¶
- Ad Populum (Appeal to the People)
- Informal-logic fallacy catalogues — the home turf, where it sits among the Latin-named fallacies of relevance
This sourceCopi's text catalogues ad populum among Latin-named fallacies such as ad misericordiam; the text checked do not show the 'fallacies of relevance' heading.
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- Informal-logic fallacy catalogues — the home turf, where it sits among the Latin-named fallacies of relevance
- Constructive dilemma
- Fallacy of Accident
- Informal logic — a standard taxonomy entry under fallacies of presumption, teaching attention to scope conditions and unstated background assumptions
This sourceClassifies accident, with converse accident, among the fallacies of presumption, in which a generalization is misapplied to a case it does not fit.
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- Informal logic — a standard taxonomy entry under fallacies of presumption, teaching attention to scope conditions and unstated background assumptions
- Relative Privation
- Informal-logic fallacy catalogues — the home turf, where it sits in the relevance-fallacy family beside red herring and ad hominem, distinguished by its signature severity comparison and sometimes catalogued as a variant of ignoratio elenchi.
This sourceThe standard taxonomy the entry is placing the fallacy within: Copi and Cohen's 'Fallacies of Relevance' section, which contains the red herring ('attention is deliberately deflected away from the issue under discussion'), argument against the person, and ignoratio elenchi ('the premises support a different conclusion from the one that is proposed').
Supported in partVerified against the source
- Informal-logic fallacy catalogues — the home turf, where it sits in the relevance-fallacy family beside red herring and ad hominem, distinguished by its signature severity comparison and sometimes catalogued as a variant of ignoratio elenchi.
Mechanisms¶
- Bridge Assumption Annotation Protocol
- Its classic misuse is the fallacy it is built to catch — post hoc ergo propter hoc,
This sourceDefines post hoc ergo propter hoc as the fallacy of inferring causation from temporal succession alone.
- Its classic misuse is the fallacy it is built to catch — post hoc ergo propter hoc,
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