A topic within Logic, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
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Robert H. Thouless
Names and classifies the dishonest argumentative tricks that persuade without being valid, arguing that most bad reasoning survives because its flaws have no familiar name to catch it by.
Richard Whately
A systematic logic textbook whose treatment of fallacies of ambiguity, begging the question and irrelevant conclusion became the standard classification used in English-language logic teaching for a century.
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