Fallacy: One Of The Many Forms Of A Fallacies?

Robert Moreno
Mr.Friske
5-26-17
Bible Final
Fallacies
A fallacy is one of the many forms of errors in reasoning. Fallacies should not have the ability to persuade the human population, but they often do. Fallacies may be utilized unintentionally, but their most common use is to intentionally deceive other people. An extensive majority of the generally known fallacies involve arguments, although some may involve explanations, or definitions, or other outcomes of reasoning. Sometimes the term "fallacy" is used even more broadly to indicate any false belief or cause of a false belief. An informal fallacy is false because of both its form and its content. The formal fallacies are fallacious only because of their logical form. For example, the Slippery Slope Fallacy has the following form: Step 1 often leads to step 2. Step 2 often leads to step 3. Step 3 often leads to ... until we reach an obviously unacceptable step, so step 1 is not acceptable. That form occurs in both good arguments and fallacious arguments. The quality of an argument of this form depends crucially on the probabilities that each step does lead to the next. The discussion that precedes begins with an account of the ways in which

He listed thirteen types. After the Dark Ages, fallacies were again studied systematically in Medieval Europe. This is why so many fallacies have Latin names. The third major period of study of the fallacies began in the later twentieth century due to renewed interest from the disciplines of philosophy, logic, communication studies, rhetoric, psychology, and artificial intelligence. The more frequent the error within public discussion and debate the more likely it is to have a name. That is one reason why there is no specific name for the fallacy of subtracting five from thirteen and concluding that the answer is seven, though the error is