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  • 'Anarchical Fallacies' must be taken with the _Book of Fallacies_, and the _Book of Fallacies_ is a sustained and vigorous, though a curiously cumbrous, assault upon the Conservative arguments.

    The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Leslie Stephen 1868

  • There are then three heads to which fallacies may be referred-namely, Formal Fallacies, Fallacies of Language, which are commonly known as Fallacies of Ambiguity, and, lastly, Material

    Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

  • In other cases, it is one the knowledge of which could only be arrived at by reasoning; but the fallacy may still be classed under the head to which, for want of a more appropriate name, we have given the appellation Fallacies of Non-observation.

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

  • They may be generally described as Fallacies of Ambiguity, whether they turn upon the use of the same word in different senses, or upon ellipsis.

    Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

  • Fallacies of Induction, where the facts on which the induction proceeds are erroneous, may be termed Fallacies of Observation.

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

  • In his ignoratio elenchi (fallacies of irrelevance) he says that "[t] here are certain kinds of argument recounted and named by Logical writers, which we should by no means universally call Fallacies; but which when unfairly used, and so far as they art fallacious, may very well be referred to the present head"; ad verecundiam is one of the ones listed.

    Siris 2009

  • Now, when you read other treatises on Logic, you will meet with various kinds of (so-called) 'Fallacies' which are by no means

    The Game of Logic Lewis Carroll 1865

  • Limpet_, though he added a kindly longing 'for the old day, before Mr. Turner had lighted on the "Fallacies," and could see like other people.' [

    Art in England Notes and Studies Dutton Cook 1856

  • Fallacies never become fact because they are just that, a fallacy.

    warming-gate 2009

  • I've linked you to Jay Goltz's post last Wednesday, "Eight Fallacies of Entrepreneurship."

    Robert Schwab: 8 Fault Lines on the Road to Entrepreneurship Robert Schwab 2011

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