{"id":2781,"date":"2011-05-20T15:55:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T20:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2011-05-20T19:50:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T00:50:06","slug":"ossa-day-2-fallacy-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2781","title":{"rendered":"OSSA Day 2: Fallacy Identification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last session of the day, Mark Battersby and Sharon Bailin&#39;s&nbsp;&quot;Fallacy Identification in a Dialectical Approach to Teaching Critical Thinking,&quot; argued for the following three points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fallacies are arguments whose rhetorical value greatly exceeds their probative value;<\/li>\n<li>Fallacy identification plays a prima facie role in eliminating bad arguments;<\/li>\n<li>Fallacies are not the end of critical analysis, but open the door to more comprehensive evaluation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Very helpfully, they set their view against some other common approaches to fallacies (Rescher, Hansen, Pragma-Dialectics, Walton&#8211;should do a post on these some day).&nbsp; Interesting about their definition (immediately called into question by Christoph Lumer), was the idea of &quot;rhetorical value.&quot;&nbsp; He maintained that this would exclude many cases of fallacy.&nbsp; For instance, absurd arguments which have little probative power; or, relatedly, an argument with lots of probative power and little persuasive power.&nbsp; Battersby stood his ground that rhetorically powerless arguments can&#39;t really be fallacious, as no one would by them.<\/p>\n<p>Some good commentary by van Laar (read by Krabbe).<\/p>\n<p>*edited&#8211;thanks mustache man.&nbsp; I was typing this during the session, trying to be quiet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last session of the day, Mark Battersby and Sharon Bailin&#39;s&nbsp;&quot;Fallacy Identification in a Dialectical Approach to Teaching Critical Thinking,&quot; argued for the following three points: Fallacies are arguments whose rhetorical value greatly exceeds their probative value; Fallacy identification plays a prima facie role in eliminating bad arguments; Fallacies are not the end of critical analysis, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2781\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OSSA Day 2: Fallacy Identification<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1088,1086,1084,1083,1085],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-christoph-lumer","tag-fallacy-identification-in-a-dialectical-approach-to-teaching-critical-thinking","tag-mark-battersby","tag-ossa-9","tag-sharon-bailin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2790,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}