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Just as there is a difference between real and apparent or fallacious deductions in dialectic, we have to distinguish between real and apparent or fallacious enthymemes in rhetoric.
(3) Deductions that start from premises which only appear to be dialectical, are fallacious deductions because of their starting points, as are (4) those "deductions" that do have dialectical premises but do not really necessitate their conclusions.
It is far better, Hume concludes, to rely on "the ordinary wisdom of nature", which ensures that we form beliefs "by some instinct or mechanical tendency", rather than trusting it to "the fallacious deductions of our reason" (EHU 5.2.22/55).
It is the "fallacious deductions" characterized in (4), however, that come closest to the focus of the Sophistical Refutations although in many of the examples given what stands out is that the premises are given as answers in dialogue and are to be maintained by the answerer, not necessarily that they are dialectical in the sense of being common opinions.
This step has been claimed by numerous philosophers to be a fallacious step in deductive reasoning.
The fallacious enthymeme pretends to include a valid deduction, while it actually rests on a fallacious inference.
As stated, this argument is clearly a fallacious employment of Leibniz' Law (what is called the masked man fallacy).
This is a fallacious argument.
This is a fallacious measure.
And that's a fallacious assumption".
It is a convincing soundbite but a fallacious argument.
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