This is my first post here so I apologise to everyone if I break any protocol or repeat what has been said many times before.
My Academic background is in two disciplines. Firstly history and secondly philosophy. Within the study of philosophy we look at argument in great detail and the arguments here generally come into what we refer to as common fallacies which have been given an appropriate taxonomy.
These aren;t really represented here except in the introduction.
1) Abortion is murder!
This is not a logical fallacy. It is either wrong or right and it depends on two issues: in The Anglo Saxon world of common law ( that's USA, Canada,Ireland, UK ,... (read more)
This is my first post here so I apologise to everyone if I break any protocol or repeat what has been said many times before.
My Academic background is in two disciplines. Firstly history and secondly philosophy. Within the study of philosophy we look at argument in great detail and the arguments here generally come into what we refer to as common fallacies which have been given an appropriate taxonomy.
These aren;t really represented here except in the introduction.
1) Abortion is murder!
This is not a logical fallacy. It is either wrong or right and it depends on two issues: in The Anglo Saxon world of common law ( that's USA, Canada,Ireland, UK ,... (read more)