Theos-Talk Archives (February 2004 Message tt00189)

I cannot exactly recommend this book, since it is more difficult than 
the SD even, but if you want to extend your knowledge of logic in the 
other direction *i.e., understanding species of argument that are not 
fallacious) try on Russell and Whitehead's PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA.

An instance of what they discuss is the maxim "All Cretans are 
liars," which seems to contradict itself because the author, 
Epimenides, was a Cretan.

A more familiar, and possibly better, modern form of this statement 
is:

"This statement is not true."

R&W ised this as the basis of their Theory of Logical Types, which is 
a real brain teaser but of great value in evaluating certain kinds of 
questions which are frequently obfuscated.

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Eldon B Tucker" <eldon@t...> 
wrote:
> Paul:
> 
> One good list of fallacies in logical argument is at the following 
url:
> 
> http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~lindsay/skeptic/arguments.html
> 
> It is not specifically related to the theories of Wolff, but 
provides an
> interesting elaboration on the discussion of logic that you bring 
up.
> 
> -- Eldon
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kpauljohnson [mailto:kpauljohnson@y...] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:47 PM
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Theos-World Follow the broken link
> 
> here's where it leads:
> 
> Explanation:
> 
> The False Dilemma fallacy occurs when an argument offers a false 
> range of choices and requires that you pick one of them ...