Premise 3: if a proposition is supported by an argument that contains a logical fallacy, then it must false.Īccordingly, the fallacy fallacy is an informal logical fallacy, since there is an issue with its premises, and namely with the false premise that if an argument is fallacious, then its conclusion must be false. Premise 2: argument A contains a logical fallacy. Premise 1: argument A supports proposition P. Premise 2: if an argument is fallacious, then its conclusion must be false.Ĭonclusion: the conclusion of argument A must be false. As such, it’s fallacious to assume that it’s not raining, simply because a fallacious argument was used to suggest that it is raining.īased on this, we can say that the fallacy fallacy has the following basic structure: Specifically, it’s possible that it is currently raining we just can’t be sure whether this is the case based only on the information in the argument. However, just because this argument is fallacious, that doesn’t mean that its conclusion is necessarily false. Specifically, its conclusion can’t be drawn from its premises, because it’s possible that it’s not raining, even though the sky is cloudy. This argument is fallacious, since it has a flaw in its logical structure.
Premise 1: if it’s raining, then the sky is cloudy. To better understand the fallacy fallacy, consider the following argument: As such, in the following article you will learn more about the fallacy fallacy, see examples of its use, and understand what you can do in order to counter its use by others and avoid using it yourself. The fallacy fallacy is an important fallacy to understand, especially if you’re interested in logical fallacies in general, since this interest can make you predisposed to using this fallacy yourself. That’s because even though it’s fallacious to claim that a certain treatment is better just because it’s perceived as more natural, that doesn’t mean that this treatment is necessarily worse than the alternatives, and assuming that it is worse is fallacious in itself. Note how the sun itself is ‘maturing’, but ‘maturing’ itself suggests ripening and coming to fullness rather than ‘growing old’ or ‘waning’.The fallacy fallacy (also known as the argument from fallacy) is a logical fallacy that occurs when someone assumes that if an argument contains a logical fallacy, then its conclusion must be false.įor example, if someone fallaciously claimed that a certain medical treatment is preferable to alternatives because it’s more “natural”, the fallacy fallacy would occur if someone else claimed that this treatment must be worse than the alternatives, because the argument used to support it is fallacious. The words ‘fruitfulness’, ‘load’, ‘ripeness’, ‘budding’, and ‘o’er-brimm’d’ all connote a time of plenty rather than little: if Keats wished the poet to ‘load every rift with ore’, in his well-known phrase, then in ‘To Autumn’ he loads every line with autumnal abundance.
Here, the autumn-symbolism is not focused on death and all those rotting leaves, but on fullness and ripeness.
Until they think warm days will never cease,įor summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells. With a sweet kernel to set budding more,Īnd still more, later flowers for the bees, To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,Īnd fill all fruit with ripeness to the core With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run
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Conspiring with him how to load and bless
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