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The polysemy of ‘fallacy’—or ‘bias’, for that matter

Zenker, Frank LU orcid (2016) 11th Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, 18-21 May, 2016) In Proceedings of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation Conference 11.
Abstract
Starting with a brief overview of current usages (Sect. 2), this paper offers some constituents of a use-based analysis of ‘fallacy’, listing 16 conditions that have, for the most part implicitly, been discussed in the literature (Sect. 3). Our thesis is that at least three related conceptions of ‘fallacy’ can be identified. The 16 conditions thus serve to “carve out” a semantic core and to distinguish three core-specifications. As our discussion suggests, these specifications can be related to three normative positions in the philosophy of human reasoning: the meliorist, the apologist, and the panglossian (Sect. 4). Seeking to make these conditions available for scholarly discussion, this analysis-sketch should not be viewed as final or... (More)
Starting with a brief overview of current usages (Sect. 2), this paper offers some constituents of a use-based analysis of ‘fallacy’, listing 16 conditions that have, for the most part implicitly, been discussed in the literature (Sect. 3). Our thesis is that at least three related conceptions of ‘fallacy’ can be identified. The 16 conditions thus serve to “carve out” a semantic core and to distinguish three core-specifications. As our discussion suggests, these specifications can be related to three normative positions in the philosophy of human reasoning: the meliorist, the apologist, and the panglossian (Sect. 4). Seeking to make these conditions available for scholarly discussion, this analysis-sketch should not be viewed as final or exhaustive. (Less)
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bias, fallacy, meaning analysis
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Argumentation, Objectivity and Bias
series title
Proceedings of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation Conference
editor
Bondy, Pat and Benaquista, Laura
volume
11
pages
14 pages
conference name
11th Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, 18-21 May, 2016)
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Windsor, Canada
conference dates
2016-05-18 - 2016-05-21
ISSN
2371-8323
language
English
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yes
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21c86929-c8d3-4bf6-9cee-81f92b739285
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  author       = {{Zenker, Frank}},
  booktitle    = {{Argumentation, Objectivity and Bias}},
  editor       = {{Bondy, Pat and Benaquista, Laura}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  series       = {{Proceedings of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation Conference}},
  title        = {{The polysemy of ‘fallacy’—or ‘bias’, for that matter}},
  url          = {{http://scholar.uwindsor.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2221&context=ossaarchive}},
  volume       = {{11}},
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