Logical Fallacies

Generally, logical fallacies can be placed into three categories. The three categories include, material fallacies, verbal fallacies, and fallacies of relevance (Sahakian & Sahakian). When someone is presenting a possible argument they use both premises and presuppositions. Premises are considered to be the starting points of a possible argument and can be proven, on the other hand presuppositions are considered to be the assumptions that can not be proved or disproved. In order to …showed first 75 words of 799 total…

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