In it he sought to teach students how to use logical principles to spot correct or fallacious reasoning in a wide variety of contemporary political and social debates.
An argument using fallacious reasoning is capable of being consequentially correct.
Popular perceptions of randomness are frequently mistaken, based on fallacious reasoning or intuitions.
Epistemic rationality, which roughly consists of forming beliefs in truth-conducive ways, making reasonable efforts to avoid fallacious reasoning and keeping an open mind for new evidence.
Rather, the theory is that, when the costs of having erroneous beliefs are low, people relax their intellectual standards and allow themselves to be more easily influenced by fallacious reasoning, cognitive biases, and emotional appeals.
The boy, serious rather than arrogant, proceeds to engage her in a debate about John Stuart Mill and then finds her guilty of fallacious reasoning.
That is fallacious reasoning.
Flawed reasoning in arguments is known as fallacious reasoning.
Bode's law was discussed as an example of fallacious reasoning by the astronomer and logician Charles Sanders Peirce in 1898.
Groucho Marx used fallacies of amphiboly, for instance, to make ironic statements; Gary Larson employs fallacious reasoning in many of his cartoons.