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Epistemology and Logic 31 problem solving, and writing skills have become abundantly available for students at every level. Beyo ...
CHAPTER 4 Fallacies: Errors of Language and Logic If indeed, the search for truth is difficult, as we have seen in the discussio ...
Fallacies 33 is to recognize them, not use them. As with all knowledge, how it is used is critical. Happily, after the study of ...
34 An Introduction to Clearer Thinking fallacy is with dangling modifiers or misplaced modifiers. Often amphibolies can be the s ...
Fallacies 35 “vicious abstraction.” Whenever a statement is taken out of context, it is, in effect, misplacing emphasis. This fa ...
36 An Introduction to Clearer Thinking red line through it— all because of that misunderstood prefix. Words like “impatient,” wh ...
Fallacies 37 general rule (moral universal) can be rigidly applied in all cases that seem to fall under the extension of that ru ...
38 An Introduction to Clearer Thinking trust anyone over thirty.” Or a more mundane comment often heard about remedies: “Wheneve ...
Fallacies 39 relationship which is not necessarily the case. To assume that since day follows night, night causes day, is an exa ...
40 An Introduction to Clearer Thinking the less apparent, but equally frustrating, are questions like this, “Was Alger Hiss an i ...
Fallacies 41 must be refuted on the basis of it validity according to the facts. b) Argumentum ad miseracordium: This fallacy ig ...
42 An Introduction to Clearer Thinking masses, their emotions, their prejudices, their feelings. This fallacy contends that quan ...
Fallacies 43 Accident— applying general rules to specific cases. Special Case—creating an absolute general rule from a few examp ...
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PART 2 MORAL PHILOSOPHY: IDEAS OF GOOD AND EVIL, RIGHT AND WRONG ...
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CHAPTER 5 Moral Philosophy: A Brief Introduction It seems that man is by nature a value setting animal. We speak of the good lif ...
48 Moral Philosophy: Ideas of Good and Evil, Right and Wrong we have that ability. Indeed, we must have that ability. He grants ...
An Introduction to Moral Philosophy 49 drunkenness ruins lives, thus conclude drunkenness is bad; we see how lying disrupts fami ...
50 Moral Philosophy: Ideas of Good and Evil, Right and Wrong issue, freedom can be lessened because your emotions obscure the is ...
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