Logical fallacies as informational shortcuts

Synthese

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 317-325

  Floridi, Luciano ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affirming the consequent; Bayes' theorem; Denying the antecedent; Formal fallacies; Rationality

Indexed keywords

EID: 60349086581     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-008-9410-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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