Journal article
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