Sentence examples for category fallacy from inspiring English sources

Analysing at the level of an arbitrary subgroup may lead to category fallacy [ 42] with loss of subtle individual effects such as acculturation and financial and social resources; indeed there may be as much variation within groups as there is between.

The adding-up-categories fallacy is still there (though ameliorated by the increase in the number of categories).

As for the category of fallacies of evidence distinctly conceived, it too is divided.

Also placed in the category of fallacies of generalization is post hoc ergo propter hoc, which tends to single out a single cause when there are in reality many contributing causes (Bk. V, v, 5).

The category of fallacies with problematic premises (reminiscent of Whately's "premises unduly assumed") shows a concern with argument evaluation over and beyond logical or inference evaluation, drawing the informal logic approach away from purely logical concerns towards an epistemic conception of fallacies.

Mill divided the broad category of argument fallacies into two groups, those in which the evidence is distinctly conceived and those in which it is indistinctly conceived.

It seems that Copi took Whately's category of semi-logical fallacies and moved them under a new heading of 'informal fallacies,' presumably for the reason that extra-logical knowledge is needed to uncover their invalidity.

The creation of the category of non-logical fallacies is not really a break with Aristotle as much as it is a break with what had become the Aristotelian tradition.

Whately's creation of the category of non-logical fallacies solved the problem of what to do with begging the question which is not an invalid form of argument, and it also created a place in fallacy taxonomy for the ad-fallacies.

The pathetic fallacy is a category mistake.

Also included in this category is the secundum quid fallacy.