Historical Origins of Argumentum ad Consequentiam |
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Authors: | Douglas Walton |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 2E9, Canada |
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Abstract: | What are the historical origins of the argumentum ad consequentiam, the argument from (or literally, to) consequences, sometimes featured as an informal fallacy in logic textbooks? As shown in this paper, knowledge of the argument can be traced back to Aristotle (who did not treat it as a fallacy, but as a reasonable argument). And this type of argument shows a spotty history of recognition in logic texts and manuals over the centuries. But how it got into the modern logic textbooks as a fallacy remains somewhat obscure. Its modern genesis is traced to the logic text of James McCosh (1879). |
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Keywords: | fallacy reasoning consequences Aristotle Pascal decision-making deliberation informal logic |
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