The polysemy of ‘fallacy’—or ‘bias’, for that matter

Frank Zenker

The polysemy of ‘fallacy’—or ‘bias’, for that matter

Frank Zenker

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Starting with a brief overview of current usages (Sect. 2), this paper offers some constituents of a use-based analysis of ‘fallacy’, listing 16 conditions that have, for the most part implicitly, been discussed in the literature (Sect. 3). Our thesis is that at least three related conceptions of ‘fallacy’ can be identified. The 16 conditions thus serve to “carve out” a semantic core and to distinguish three core-specifications. As our discussion suggests, these specifications can be related to three normative positions in the philosophy of human reasoning: the meliorist, the apologist, and the panglossian (Sect. 4). Seeking to make these conditions available for scholarly discussion, this analysis-sketch should not be viewed as final or exhaustive.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Argumentation, Objectivity and Bias
Editors	Pat Bondy, Laura Benaquista
Place of Publication	Windsor, Ontario
Number of pages	14
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	11th Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, 18-21 May, 2016) - University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada Duration: 2016 May 18 → 2016 May 21

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation Conference
Volume	11
ISSN (Print)	2371-8323

Conference

Conference	11th Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, 18-21 May, 2016)
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Windsor
Period	2016/05/18 → 2016/05/21

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Philosophy

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bias
fallacy
meaning analysis

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Zenker, F 2016, The polysemy of ‘fallacy’—or ‘bias’, for that matter. in P Bondy & L Benaquista (eds), Argumentation, Objectivity and Bias . Proceedings of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation Conference, vol. 11, Windsor, Ontario, 11th Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, 18-21 May, 2016), Windsor, Canada, 2016/05/18. <http://scholar.uwindsor.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2221&context=ossaarchive>

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