 | George Bentham - 1827 - 304 σελίδες
...131.) DR. WHATELY'S chapter on Fallacies is introduced by the following exposition of the subject : " By a fallacy is commonly understood any unsound mode...decisive of the question in hand when in fairness it is not." This definition may be fully applicable to all apparent arguments, in which an erroneous conclusion... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1831 - 440 σελίδες
...mean to give too narrow a definition; in violation of Rule I. BOOK III. OF FALLACIES. Introduction. BY a Fallacy is commonly understood," any unsound...decisive of the question in hand, when in fairness it is not." Considering the ready detection and clear exposure of Fallacies to be both more extensively important,... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1832 - 386 σελίδες
...Fallacy is commonly understood, " any Definition of unsound mode of arguing, which appears to " acy' demand our conviction, and to be decisive of the question in hand, when in fairness it is not." Considering the ready detection and clear exposure of Fallacies to be both more extensively important,... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1832 - 386 σελίδες
...Fallacy is commonly understood, " any Definition of unsound mode of arguing, which appears to * °y' demand our conviction, and to be decisive of the question in hand, when in fairness it is not." Considering the ready detection and clear exposure of Fallacies to be both more extensively important,... | |
 | Robert Simson (master of Colebrooke house acad, Islington.) - 1838 - 206 σελίδες
...the extremes disagreeing with eacli other, the conclusion is negative. What do you mean by a fallacy? Any unsound mode of arguing, which appears to demand...decisive of the question in hand, when in fairness it is not. Is the ready detection and clear exposure of fallacies difficult? Yes ; it is of more difficulty... | |
 | 1838 - 518 σελίδες
...upwards. FALLACY, as defined by Archbishop Whately, is any unsound mode of arguing which appears to carry conviction and to be decisive of the question in hand, when in fairness it is not. Bentham's definition in his ' Book of Fallacies' is this : ' By the name of fallacy it is common... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1840 - 508 σελίδες
...1—253. BOOK III. OF FALLACIES. Introduction. BY a Fallacy is commonly understood, " any Definition or unsound mode of arguing, which appears to demand our...decisive of the question in hand, when in fairness it is not." Considering the ready detection and clear exposure of Fallacies to be both more extensively important,... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1843 - 372 σελίδες
...commonly understood, " any Definilloll 0 , unsound mode of arguing, which appears to faUac ydemand our conviction, and to be decisive of the question in hand, when in fairness it is not." Considering the ready detection and clear exposure of Fallacies to be both more extensively important,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 338 σελίδες
...it may be drawn out into as many separate syllogisms. FALLACIES OE SOPHISMS. By a Fallacy or Sophism is commonly understood any unsound mode of arguing,...decisive of the question in hand, when in fairness it is not so. In the practical detection of each individual fallacy, much must depend on natural and acquired... | |
 | Richard Murray (of Trinity coll, Dublin.) - 1847 - 222 σελίδες
...the discourse. A very long discussion is one of the most effectual veils of fallacy — WHATELEY. 2. By a fallacy is commonly understood, " any unsound...decisive of the question in hand, when in fairness it is not." — WHATELEY. 3. The rules of logic enable us to develope the principles on which all reasoning... | |
| |
i_ •LJ unsound mode of arguing, which appears to demand our conviction, and to be decisive of the question in hand, when in fairness it is not. 
