Journal article
Fallacies and formal logic in Aristotle
Abstract
The taxonomy and analysis of fallacies in Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations pre-date the formal logic of his Prior Analytics A4-6. Of the 64 fully described examples of ‘sophistical refutations’ which are fallacious because they are only apparently valid, 49 have the wrong number of premisses or the wrong form of premiss or conclusion for analysis by the Prior Analytics theory of the categorical syllogism. The rest Aristotle either frames so …
Authors
Hitchcock D
Journal
History and Philosophy of Logic, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 207–221
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publication Date
9 2000
DOI
10.1080/0144534001022004
ISSN
0144-5340