argumentum ad temperantiam ≍ “argument from moderation” fallacy

argumentum ad temperantiam ≍ “argument from moderation” fallacy

What is “moderate” is not necessarily always better or preferable to any more “extreme” alternatives. It is a fallacy to presume that moderation (or a more “moderate” course of action, habitual chara...

modal fallacy

modal fallacy

> Norman Swartz gave the following example of how the modal fallacy can lead one to conclude that t...

modal scope fallacy

modal scope fallacy

* misconditionalization, fallacy of neccessity > The _de dicto_ expression □ (Bx → ⌐ Mx) is a tauto...