Formal fallacies Flashcards
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Formal fallacies
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Failure to logically connect
2
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Deriving ought from is
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Insufficient to say that because something is, it ought to be that way. Prescriptive conclusion cannot be derived from a descriptive premise
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Affirming the consequent
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Saying if rains there’s clouds, there’s clouds so it’s raining. Falsely affirming the consequent.
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Denying the antecedent
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If p then q, not p so not q. If its raining there’s clouds, it’s not raining so there’re no clouds
