Johnson (1990) has accused Charles Hamblin, the author of Fallacies (1970), of critical failures some of which could even amount to allegations that Hamblin himself committed fallacies in his treatment of textbook writers on the fallacies prior to 1970. According to Johnson (p.165), Hamblin's treatment of the Standard Treatment of the fallacies in the textbooks up to that time exhibits "lack of...

This paper describes a simple continuous-valued logic which aims to explain the occurrence of both conjunction fallacies (where a conjunction AandB is judged more likely than a constituent A) and disjunction fallacies (where a disjunction AorB is judged less likely than a constituent A) in people’s judgments of likelihood for simple and complex events. In this model both these fallacies are the...

The study of fallacies is at the heart of argumentation studies. In response to Hamblin’s devastating critique of the state of the theory of fallacies in 1970, both formal dialectical and informal approaches to fallacies developed. In the current paper, we focus on an influential informal approach to fallacies, part of the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation. Central to the pragma-dialec...

Michael Burawoy reflects back on 40 years of industrial ethnography in Zambia, the USA, Hungary and Russia to discover the mistakes he made and, thus, to infer the fallacies to which ethnography is subject. He traces these fallacies not to any ‘theoretical imposition’ but to inadequate theoretical reflection. All methodologies are fallible and scholars should spend more time examining the limit...

In this doctoral thesis (Amsterdam, 1990), parts of which were published before as articles, it is argued "that far more facts about revolutions and collective violence exist on file than we can cogently explain, and that this predicament owes to fallacies of concept, theory, and method namely, essentialism in defining 'revolution', reliance on the volcanic model to explain it, and resort to 'i...