Sentence examples for material fallacies from inspiring English sources

Groups 2 and 3 are called logical fallacies, or fallacies "in discourse," in contrast to the substantive, or material, fallacies of group 1, called fallacies "in matter"; and groups 1 and 2, in contrast to group 3, are called informal fallacies.

Thus, he took every fallacy to belong either to the class of deductive failures (logical fallacies) or the class of non-logical failures (material fallacies).

The non-logical, material fallacies are also divided into two classes, the class of fallacies with premises 'unduly assumed,' and another class of fallacies of irrelevant conclusions.

Most Indian philosophies assume that moksha is possible, and the "impossibility of moksha" (anirmoksha) is regarded as a material fallacy likely to vitiate a philosophical theory.

Begging the question fits under the heading of a non-logical, material fallacy in which a premise has been unduly assumed, and ignoratio elenchi is a non-logical, material fallacy in which an irrelevant conclusion has been reached.

Jones was sufficiently esteemed by Peirce for him to cite her Elements of Logic as a Science of Propositions as an authoritative source on the "Material Fallacy" in Baldwin's widely-read reference work, Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology.

He describes "begging the question" as a "material fallacy" in his book Prior Analytics.

Care has to be taken when using homology to curate a gene's structure because nematode genes can reciprocally confirm each others' structures, leading to the material fallacy of 'arguing in a circle'.

Logical fallacies ahoy.

That objection rests on three central fallacies.

These connections are fallacies.