| James Welton - Logic - 1896 - 374 pages
...scarcely to be looked for. " There is," says De Morgan, tatnablenat " no suca thing as a classification of the ways in which " men may arrive at an error...is much to be doubted "whether there ever can be" (Ibid., p. 237). And, even when we limit the word Fallacy to offences against logical principles, yet... | |
| Horace William Brindley Joseph - Logic - 1906 - 598 pages
...Morgan, Formal Logic, p. 237. 'There is no such thing as a classification of the ways in which men m;iy arrive at an error: it is much to be doubted whether there ever can be.' ' Logic, p. 159, 8th ed. of a false premiss is not indeed perhaps to be called a fallacy, as we shall... | |
| Daniel Sommer Robinson - Logic - 1924 - 420 pages
...Morgan, put it: "There is no such thing as a classification of the ways in which men may arrive at error; it is much to be doubted whether there ever can be." And to this should be added a passage from Joseph : "If we are satisfied that logic should treat of... | |
| Albert Craig Baird - Debates and debating - 1928 - 382 pages
...Morgan concludes, "There is no such thing as a classification of the ways in which men may arrive at error; it is much to be doubted whether there ever can be." 1 For practical purposes of argument the following admittedly incomplete classification is offered:... | |
| William Thomas Parry, Edward A. Hacker - Philosophy - 1991 - 560 pages
...of fallacies is notoriously difficult. De Morgan stated: "There is no such thing as a classification of the ways in which men may arrive at an error: it is much to be doubted whether there ever can be' ' . 10 If this passage is interpreted to mean that no serviceable classifications of fallacies are... | |
| Nancy Carrick, Lawrence Finsen - Education - 1997 - 324 pages
...nineteenth-century logician Augustas De Morgan put it, "There is no such thing as a classification of the ways in which men may arrive at an error; it is much to be doubted whether there ever can be" (qtd. in Copi 89). cussing what punishment is appropriate for rape you point out how seriously this... | |
| Scott G. Schreiber - Philosophy - 2003 - 268 pages
...this position include De Morgan (1847): "There is no such thing as a classification of the ways on which men may arrive at an error: it is much to be doubted whether there ever can be"; Joseph (1916): "Truth may have its norms, but error is infinite in its aberrations, and they cannot... | |
| J.H. Woods - Philosophy - 2004 - 416 pages
...[Massey, 1975a]. Shades of DeMorgan: "There is no such thing as a classification of the ways in which men arrive at an error: it is much to be doubted whether there ever can be", [DeMorgan, 1926, p. 276]. 2 "We should retain the historical nucleus of the idea of a fallacy as a... | |
| Horace William Brindley Joseph - Logic - 1906 - 582 pages
...r,. iii. 1146a 24. ' Cf. de Morgan, Formal Logic, p. 237. 'There is no such thing as a classification of the ways in which men may arrive at an error :...is much to be doubted whether there ever can be.' of a false premiss is not indeed perhaps to be called a fallacy, as we shall see presently ; it is... | |
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