NTA-NET (UGC-NET) Philosophy (03) Video Course Lecture: Informal Fallacies; False Dilemma, if by Whiskey, Fallacy of Many Questions, Double Barrelled Question and Lucid Fallacy. Their Occurrences, Their Definitions, Their Examples and Other Names. (30 mins) | Lecture 317 of 355

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  • Logic-Formal and Symbolic » Decision Procedures

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Western Logic; Informal Fallacies; False Dilemma, If by Whiskey, Fallacy of many questions, Double barrelled question and Lucid fallacy. Their occurrences, their definitions, their examples and other names.

  • Understanding the fallacy of False Dilemma. Why it is called an Either Or fallacy
  • Understanding the meaning of If by Whiskey, the importance of this fallacy specially in a political discourse.
  • Understanding how and why fallacy of many questions is also called fallacy of trick question.
  • Examining the scope of Double barrelled questions and their relation with fallacy of many questions.
  • Understanding the Lucid fallacy identified by Taleb in the work the Black Swan

References: Introduction to Logic by Copi, Cohen and McMahon, Symbolic Logic by Copi.