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In its treatment of fallacies, informal logic revives a tradition which can be traced to Aristotle.
Hamblin (1970, ch. 1) criticized Copi's work, along with that of several others, and gave it the pejorative name, "the standard treatment of fallacies".
His criticisms rang true with many of his readers, thereby provoking contempt for the traditional treatment of fallacies as well as stimulating research in what we may call the new, or post-Hamblin era, of fallacy studies.
The work opens with a critique of the standard treatment of fallacies as it was found in mid-twentieth century textbooks; then, in subsequent chapters, it takes a historical turn reviewing Aristotle's approach to fallacies and exploring the tradition it fostered (as in the previous section of this entry).
Maurice Finocchiaro continued Hamblin's criticism of the modern textbook treatment of fallacies, observing that they contain very few examples of actual fallacies, leading him to doubt the validity of 'fallacy' as a genuine logical category.
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Sophistic Refutations, a discussion of various kinds of fallacies.
A question that continues to dog fallacy theory is how we are to conceive of fallacies.
Gerald Massey (1981) has voiced a strong objection to fallacy theory and the teaching of 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.
Mill also included what he calls fallacies of inspection, or a priori fallacies (Bk. V, iii) in his survey of fallacies.
In that work, four things are worth noting: (a) the different conceptions of fallacy, (b) the basic concepts used to explain fallacies, (c) his explanation of why fallacies can be deceptive, and (d) his enumeration and classification of fallacies.
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