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Commentary On 'Acts Of Ostension', Paul L. Simard Smith
Commentary On 'Acts Of Ostension', Paul L. Simard Smith
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Commentary On ‘Levels Of Depth In Deep Disagreement’, Tim Kenyon
Commentary On ‘Levels Of Depth In Deep Disagreement’, Tim Kenyon
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The Polysemy Of ‘Fallacy’—Or ‘Bias’, For That Matter, Frank Zenker
The Polysemy Of ‘Fallacy’—Or ‘Bias’, For That Matter, Frank Zenker
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Starting with a brief overview of current usages (Sect. 2), this paper offers some constituents of a use-based analysis of ‘fallacy’, listing 16 conditions that have, for the most part implicitly, been discussed in the literature (Sect. 3). Our thesis is that at least three related conceptions of ‘fallacy’ can be identified. The 16 conditions thus serve to “carve out” a semantic core and to distinguish three core-specifications. As our discussion suggests, these specifications can be related to three normative positions in the philosophy of human reasoning: the meliorist, the apologist, and the panglossian (Sect. 4). Seeking to make these …