Moral Reasoning - Fallacies

3 important questions on Moral Reasoning - Fallacies

What are the classical formal fallacies?

  1. Fallacy of denying the antecendent.
  2. Fallacy of affirming the consequent.

What is a ad hominem fallacy?

This is an informal fallacie, which occurs when you try to undermine a position by attacking the person who is advancing it.

Politicians do this all the time

What are the informal fallacies?

  1. Ad hominem fallacy.
  2. Appeal to authority, involves relying on authority figures.
  3. Appeal to ignorance
    1. when one thinks that a claim is true because it hasn't been proven false.
    2. when one thinks that a claim is false because it hasn't been proven true.
  4. Hasty generalization, which occurs when someone illicitly draws a general lesson from only a small handful of cases.

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