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Denying the Antecedent: The Fallacy That Never Was, or Sometimes Isn't?
2016
Informal Logic
Abstract: In this paper we examine two challenges to the orthodox understanding of the fallacy of denying the antecedent. One challenge is to say that passages thought to express the fallacy can usually be given an interpretation on which they express valid arguments, entitling us to query whether the fallacy is commonly, if ever, committed at all. We discuss this claim in Section 1. The second challenge comes from those who think that there are legitimate uses of denying the antecedent that
doi:10.22329/il.v36i1.4469
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