Thursday, August 12, 2010

Content Fallacies: I Didn't Quite Understand That..

One of the concepts that I did not quite understand when we first covered it is Content Fallacies. After doing the evaluation of a Social Organization paper I was better able to understand what exactly a content fallacy actually is. Here is my attempt to explain:

There are 2 types of fallacies, Structural (formal) and Content (informal). In Structural Fallacies, the fallacy occurs because of the structure of the premises. With content fallacies, there is something wrong with the content of what is being assert.

My hang up on understanding content fallacies was actually trying to find a list of content fallacies. A content fallacy is an actual type of fallacy. Lol :).

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