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Formal vs. Informal Fallacies

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Formal fallacies fail by structure alone (150, 152, 155, 102). Informal fallacies require looking at content and context.

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Affirming the consequent fails on any subject matter. A weak analogy fails on this subject matter.

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This unit is the informal catalog. The formal ones already have numbers — that's what "formal" means.

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