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Formal Fallacy Handbook

Formal Fallacy Handbook

This handbook gives an overview of six formal fallacies (syllogistic fallacies) with real-world examples:

  1. Affirming the Consequent
  2. Denying the Antecedent
  3. Denying a Conjunct
  4. Affirming a Disjunct
  5. Fallacy of the Undistributed Middle
  6. Fallacy of Four Terms

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Keywords:
undistributed middle, critical thinking, symbolic logic, logical fallacies, formal fallacies, logic, validity, denying the antecedent, argument analysis, affirming the consequent, deductive reasoning
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Material Type:
Reference Material
Date Added to MERLOT:
June 6, 2026
Date Modified in MERLOT:
June 6, 2026
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Submitter:
Stephanie Simoes
Primary Audience:
High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division
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PDF, Website
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Language:
English
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No
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

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