The modal fallacy or modal scope fallacy is a type of formal fallacy that occurs in modal logic. It is the fallacy of placing a proposition in the wrong...

affirmative premises. Fallacy of the undistributed middle – the middle term in a categorical syllogism is not distributed. Modal fallacy – confusing necessity...

Enquiry. Conceptual necessity Indeterminism Logical possibility Modal collapse Modal fallacy Modal logic Subjunctive possibility (Gensler 2017, p. 231) (Kripke...

occurrence? However, this kind of argument fails to recognize its use of the modal fallacy. It is possible to show that the first premise of arguments like these...

Modal logic is a kind of logic used to represent statements about necessity and possibility. In philosophy and related fields it is used as a tool for...

human free will, his argument is considered by some as affected by modal fallacy. The Eight Chapters of Maimonides on Ethics (Semonah Perakhim), edited...

equivalent and can be freely swapped. Rules of inference contrast with formal fallacies—invalid argument forms involving logical errors. Rules of inference belong...

ISBN 978-0-415-16696-6. Norman Swartz, The Modal Fallacy Melvin Fitting; Richard L. Mendelsohn (1998). First-order modal logic. Springer. pp. 35–40. ISBN 978-0-7923-5335-5...

History of Modal Theories. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 71. ISBN 978-90-277-1125-0. Korb, Kevin (2004). "Bayesian Informal Logic and Fallacy". Informal...

Norman Swartz, however, contends that the above arguments commit the modal fallacy. In particular, he asserts that these arguments assume that if C is...

In philosophical logic, the masked-man fallacy (also known as the intensional fallacy or epistemic fallacy) is the false assumption that a knowledge or...

between de dicto modal sentences and de re modal sentences, medieval logicians began to shape a more coherent concept of Aristotle's modal syllogism model...

Epistemic modal logic is a subfield of modal logic that is concerned with reasoning about knowledge. While epistemology has a long philosophical tradition...

authority is an informal fallacy, and obtaining knowledge in this way is fallible. This argument is a form of genetic fallacy; in which the conclusion...

called fallacies. For formal fallacies, like affirming the consequent, the error lies in the logical form of the argument. For informal fallacies, like...

A modal connective (or modal operator) is a logical connective for modal logic. It is an operator which forms propositions from propositions. In general...

semantics for intensional and modal logic. Their metaphysical status has been a subject of controversy in philosophy, with modal realists such as David Lewis...

therefore be very large, ranging from core topics such as the study of fallacies and paradoxes, to specialized analyses of reasoning such as probability...

Appeal to the stone, also known as argumentum ad lapidem, is a logical fallacy that dismisses an argument as untrue or absurd. The dismissal is made by...

measured/quantified metrics than to unquantifiable values. See also: McNamara fallacy. Well travelled road effect, the tendency to underestimate the duration...

formula De se Evaluation strategy Latitudinarianism (philosophy) Modal scope fallacy Quantifier raising Sense and reference Temperature paradox Semantics...

deals with the fallacies of composition, and division. Chapter 9 deals with the fallacy of accent. Chapter 10 deals with the fallacy of 'figure of speech'...

quantifier shift fallacy A logical fallacy involving the incorrect interchange of the position of two quantifiers, or a quantifier and a modal operator, leading...

philosophical problems, often in the form of extended logical systems like modal logic. But other theorists draw the distinction between the philosophy of...

and A {\displaystyle A} false. Such accounts are called "modal" because they appeal to the modal notions of logical necessity and logical possibility. 'It...

ABC News. Retrieved 7 December 2022. Gardner, Martin. (1957). Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. Dover Publications. p. 170. ISBN 0-486-20394-8...

{\displaystyle \Box } , or ⥽) is a conditional governed by a modal operator, that is, a logical connective of modal logic. It is logically equivalent to the material...

Formal arguments that are invalid are often associated with at least one fallacy which should be verifiable. A standard view is that whether an argument...

ontological argument was formulated by Kurt Gödel in private notes, using modal logic. Although he never published or publicly presented it, a version was...

predicate calculus even for statements which, due to their use of tense, modality, adverbial constructions, propositional arguments (e.g. "Sally said that...