Aristotle's Conception of a Fallacy

Woods and Hansen (1997) showed that, contrary to Hintikka (1987), the fallacies in Aristotle’s Sophistical Refutations are not strongly relative to refutation-oriented question-and-answer dialogues, but are failures to satisfy Aristotle’s conditions for being a deduction. They are however weakly relative to them, in the sense of being the fallacies that one finds in them. Aristotle finds quite different fallacies in public speeches and in …