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Textbook treatments of fallacies

Abstract

In his Fallacies, Hamblin (1970) castigated what he called the “standard treatment” of fallacies in introductory textbooks of his day as debased, worn-out, dogmatic, and unconnected to anything else in modern logic. A bit more than 50 years later, I investigate the treatment of fallacies in six English-language introductory textbooks with a section on fallacies that have gone into 10 or more editions, to see whether their treatment of fallacies …

Authors

Hitchcock DL

Journal

Argumentation, , , pp. 1–12

Publisher

Springer Nature

DOI

10.1007/s10503-023-09600-1

ISSN

0920-427X