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Part 9.
Part 10 will discuss the fallacies of amphiboly and accent, and the final installment, part 11, will discuss the fallacies of composition and division.
2 posted on
01/02/2004 1:03:30 PM PST by
general_re
("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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3 posted on
01/02/2004 1:25:27 PM PST by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
To: general_re
My favorite equivocation example is the ham sandwich argument.
Nothing is better than realizing all of one's desires.
A ham sandwich is better than nothing.
Therefore, a ham sandwich is better than realizing all of one's desires.
There is a subtle shift in the meaning of "nothing." And one again, as Lewis Carroll did in the
Looking Glass example, the speaker makes "nothing" an object in a hierarchy of rank.
6 posted on
01/02/2004 2:14:11 PM PST by
VadeRetro
To: general_re
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To: general_re
Five varieties are distinguished in the following. What followed was the fallacy of "equivocation" -- where are the other four fallacies of ambiguity?
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