Topic: argumentation

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Catalog of fallacies: 67 techniques with examples and answers

Full course reference: six fallacy families, sixty-seven fallacies, each with a substitution mechanics, everyday example, engineering case, and working answer.

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Relevance fallacies: person attack, position substitution, and question evasion

Ad hominem, straw man, red herring, whataboutism, false authority, popularity, tradition, emotions and consequences: when a reply does not support the stated thesis.

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Aristotle's Thirteen Fallacies: the First Systematic Catalog of Fallacies

Six linguistic and seven non-linguistic sources of spurious refutation in “On Sophistical Refutations”: from homonymy and amphiboly to false cause, complex …

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Enthymeme and rhetorical proof: how to restore hidden premises

Why real arguments are abbreviated, how Aristotle and Chelpanov understood enthymeme, how to reconstruct hidden premises, work with examples, signs, maxims, ethos, and …

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Logic and Fallacies: Learning Map from Aristotle to Engineering Solutions

How a good reasoning is structured, why a catalog of names does not replace analysis, and what route to follow from concepts and syllogisms to causality, statistics, and …

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