Essays on Fallacy

During the first week of class, we discussed informal fallacies. An informal fallacy is defined as a logical mistake. Five of the informal fallacies discussed were equivocation, ad hominem, straw man, appeal to authority, and secundum. Each of these fallacies is comparable to what happens…

Peter Geach’s essay on the Socratic fallacy poses a large problem for the Socratic method of obtaining answers to the What-is-F? question. He claims that Socrates makes an error when he refuses to accept examples as knowledge, primarily citing the Euthyphro as the source. In…

Within a world where people are primarily motivated by greater health, happiness, freedom, financial security and success, one would automatically assume that humans would act in the most efficient manner to ensure that these feats, which ultimately lead to prosperity, are achieved in the quickest…