PHI 1710 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Hasty Generalization, Straw Man, Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
27 Jul 2020
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The 20 most important types of informal fallacies. A summary of the types of informal fallacies most commonly used when arguing. All people long to be in possession of reason. When we keep an idea within ourselves it is because we consider it the best of all possible in a certain matter, and we rarely give in to abandon it without fighting first. This type of logic juggling, which very often precisely obviates it and relieves it to a second order of importance, we know as fallacies. Sometimes such fallacies are cognitive biases that harm those who use them more than others. Informal fallacies are reasoning"s that use premises that might seem logical, but in reality hide an error in their own structure (the arguments have biases of approach or allude to irrationality). On some occasions, they have a sequence that at a formal level is faultless, so they are not easy to recognize.
