Sunday, November 25, 2012

Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies

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http://www.fallacyfiles.org/taxonomy.html

A "fallacy" is a mistake, and a "logical" fallacy is a mistake in reasoning. There are, of course, other types of mistake than mistakes in reasoning. For instance, factual mistakes are sometimes referred to as "fallacies". However, the Fallacy Files is specifically concerned, not with factual errors, but with logical ones.

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