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Felipe Lorenzo del Río

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falaxia is incorrectly written, and should be written as "fallacy" being its meaning: From the latin fallax fallacis: fallacious, false, misleading, impostor. Logic is a type of malformed argument, which seems to demonstrate that, according to logical laws, cannot. Philosophers distinguish an infinite number of types of these arguments. Two examples: the argument of the vicious ( petitio principii: petition of principle ) i.e. give by the way what is meant to demonstrate and the argument of authority ( magister dixit: the 41 master said it; what is popularly reads as follows: " Blas, round point " said it Perhaps the first false argument in the history of the philosophy was what was then called the horned argument, formulated by a disciple of Socrates from the school of Megara, Estilpon ( 4th century a. d. C. ). It says: you have what you have not lost; you have not lost horns; then you have horns.

  



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