Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Fallacies, Fallacies, Everywhere

Looking for links on fallacies and equivocation? This is your post! First, there's a nice series of short articles on a bunch of different fallacies, including many that aren't in our book.... but also an entry on equivocation.

Speaking of, my best friend the inter-net has some nice examples of the fallacy of equivocation. Here is one good one:
P1) A feather is light.
P2) What is light cannot be dark.
C) A feather cannot be dark.
Steal Wool Over Their Eyes?

1 comment:

  1. http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1vbmdU/www.mnei.nl/schopenhauer/38-stratagems.htm/
    lol stumbleupon endorses fallacies

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