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Definition of Fallacies
1. fallacy [n] - See also: fallacy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fallacies
Literary usage of Fallacies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introductory Logic by James Edwin Creighton (1909)
"Classification of fallacies. —A Fallacy may be defined as a conclusion or ...
We shall hereafter treat of the fallacies or errors to which inductive ..."
2. The Essentials of Logic by Roy Wood Sellars (1917)
"to do with 'deductive' fallacies or fallacies in argumentation; where, on the
other hand, errors arise in attempts to extend the boundaries of knowledge, ..."
3. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1839)
"First, fallacies of authority (including laudatory personalities ;) the subject-matter
... Thirdly, fallacies of delay; the subject- matter of which is an ..."
4. Elements of Logic: Together with an Introductory View of Philosophy in by Henry Philip Tappan (1856)
"We close here our view of the Deductive fallacies. It will be seen that those
arising from the matter of the propositions are numerous. ..."
5. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of by John Stuart Mill (1906)
"fallacies § 3. We must not, however, expect to find that men's actual errors
always, or even commonly, fall so unmistakably under some one of these classes ..."
6. Logic by George Hugh Smith (1901)
"TABLE OF fallacies.—According to this scheme, fallacies are divided into two
classes, called by the schoolmen and by later logicians, fallacies in ..."
7. Proceedings by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (1877)
"It appeared to him that the paper should have been called the fallacies of
Colonial, rather than merely the fallacies of Federation. ..."
8. Logic; Or, The Analytic of Explicit Reasoning by George Hugh Smith (1901)
"excepted fallacy (the F. Consequents) includes all the fallacies of Inference,
except Equivocation. It is obvious, therefore, that the current expressions ..."
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