Logical Fallacies: The Fallacy Files

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Tysen Woodlock on 2008-01-01
"I began collecting and studying logical fallacies about twenty years
ago, when I first became interested in logic. This collection took two
forms:
1. A collection of named fallacies—such as "ad hominem"—that
  is, types of bad reasoning which someone has thought distinctive and
  interesting enough to name and describe. This collection took the form,
  primarily, of the study and acquisition of books and articles on the
  named fallacies, especially textbooks and reference books. You can find
  individual files on the named fallacies via the Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies, or from the alphabetical index in the scroll bar to your left.
2. A collection of fallacious, or otherwise bad, arguments, that
  is, examples of reasoning which may commit one or more of the named
  fallacies under 1, or are bad in some way yet to be classified. This
  collection took the form of clippings from newspapers, magazines,
  pamphlets, photocopies of pages of books, and—in a few rare
  cases—entire articles or books which were rich sources of bad
  reasoning. I have used selections from my collection as examples in
  many of the files on named fallacies, and additional examples can be
  found in the file: Stalking the Wild Fallacy.
Some years after I began to amass these files, I wondered just what
I ought eventually to do with them, how best to organize the
information within them, and in what form to make them available to
others interested in fallacy studies. The present hypertext web
version, The Fallacy Files, was first published on March 11th, 2001, and is the result of this score of years of research and fieldwork on the fallacies."

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