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Conflicting Conditions

Go Jan 01, 1970 The definition is self-contradictory.

Four Terms

Go Jan 01, 1970 The fallacy is committed when a standard form categorical syllogism contains four terms.

Amphiboly

Go Jan 01, 1970 An amphiboly occurs when the construction of a sentence allows it to have two different meanings.

Circular Definition

Go Jan 01, 1970 The definition includes the term being defined as a part of the definition.

Truths

Go Jan 01, 1970 A proposition is true if and only if what it says about the world is in fact the way it is.

Appeal to Flattery

Go Jan 01, 1970 also apple polishing

Propositions

Go Jan 01, 1970 A logical operator joins two propositions to form a new, complex, proposition.

Inconsistency

Go Jan 01, 1970 The author asserts more than one proposition such that the propositions cannot all be true.

Bertrand Russell on Christian Ethics

The Quotable Bertrand Russell (ed. Lee Eisler, Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1993), p. 118.

Go Jan 01, 1970

The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts ‘sins’ and others ‘virtue’ on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.

Too Narrow

Go Jan 01, 1970 The definition does not include items which should be included.