Sentence examples for logical mistakes from inspiring English sources

This idea, pursued jointly by Woods and Douglas Walton (1989), is that, for many of the fallacies standard formal logic is inadequate to uncover the unique kind of logical mistakes in question it is too coarse conceptually to reveal the unique character of many of the fallacies.

Second, Aristotle's fallacies are logical mistakes: they have no appropriate employment outside eristic argumentation whereas the ad-fallacies are instances of ad-arguments, often appropriately used in dialogues.

The characteristic relativist contention is that a common moral framework is often lacking, especially in moral disagreements between one society and another, and that differences in moral frameworks usually cannot be explained simply by supposing that one society or the other is making factual or logical mistakes.

The descriptive project of Replacement Naturalism may record certain irrational cognitive processes in studying the evidence-theory relationship, but given the underdetermination of theory by evidence, even when we correct for logical mistakes, we still won't have an account of which of our theoretical beliefs are warranted and which are not.

Adults, for their part, have a long history of rather lamentable logical mistakes.

They were also responsible for collecting the questionnaires and checking for any missing data or logical mistakes.

It is a logical mistake, a way of thinking profoundly in error.

Perhaps too influenced by the common liberal view of the time that race was first and foremost — that racism, excuse me, was first and foremost a logical mistake, which, once corrected, would dissolve and disappear.

Reinach notes that the ontological mistake lies in assuming that essences are substances or really existing particulars; the logical mistake is assuming that judgments about "the triangle" or "the lion" refer to concepts at all.

Objectivists maintain that, typically, at least one party in a moral disagreement accepts the moral judgment on account of some factual or logical mistake, and that revealing such mistakes would be sufficient to rationally resolve the disagreement.

If I make a logical mistake, I may feel silly or stupid or embarrassed, but I have no reason to feel guilty, unless the mistake reflects some carelessness on my part that itself constitutes a violation of a moral obligation.