Transcription of Chapter 4 – Identifying Fallacies - Stetson University
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1 Logic: A Brief Introduction Ronald L. Hall, Stetson University Chapter 4 Identifying Fallacies Introduction Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that his aim in philosophy was to turn disguised nonsense into patent nonsense . What he was implying in this cryptic remark is that patent (obvious) nonsense , being easy to spot, is not as dangerously misleading as nonsense that is disguised as sense. Our task in this Chapter is to unmask some common cases of disguised nonsense . When we do, we will be less prone to fall for their illusion of sense. At one time or another, we have all had the illusion that some conclusion followed from a given set of premises when in fact it did not.
nonsense. What he was implying in this cryptic remark is that patent (obvious) nonsense, being easy to spot, is not as dangerously misleading as nonsense that is disguised as sense. Our task in this chapter is to unmask some common cases of disguised nonsense. When we do, we will be less prone to fall for their illusion of sense.
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