Critical Thinking: Informal Fallacies Part 1: Red Herring and Straw Man
IntroductionIn the last post we looked at the properties of a strong argument: (a) premise acceptability and (b) logical force (i.e., validity). The concept of validity can be further sub-divided into two components: (i) premise relevance and (ii) premise sufficiency. Now we’re going to look at the dark side of arguments: fallacies. Fallacies are […]
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