Book V: On Fallacies

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Book V: On Fallacies is the section of John Stuart Mill’s *A System of Logic* that systematically analyzes common logical errors and misleading forms of argument.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book section
philosophical text
addresses errors in deductive reasoning
errors in inductive reasoning
misinterpretation of propositions
misuse of evidence
aimsTo clarify standards of valid reasoning
improve critical thinking
analyzes fallacies arising from irrelevant premises
fallacies arising from language
fallacies of ambiguity
fallacies of authority
fallacies of confusion
fallacies of generalization
fallacies of inference
author John Stuart Mill NERFINISHED
contextOfCreation Victorian era philosophy
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
firstPublicationYear 1843
focusesOn classification of fallacies
misleading forms of argument
systematic analysis of common logical errors
genre logic
philosophy of logic
hasInfluenceOn later work in informal logic
modern treatments of logical fallacies
includedIn later editions of A System of Logic
influencedBy Aristotelian logic
earlier theories of syllogistic fallacies
language English
notableFor integration of fallacy theory with Mill’s empiricist logic
systematic classification of fallacies in a broader theory of logic
partOf A System of Logic NERFINISHED
philosophicalDiscipline epistemology
logic
philosophicalTradition British empiricism
publicationCentury 19th century
relatedWork Book I of A System of Logic NERFINISHED
Book II of A System of Logic NERFINISHED
Book III of A System of Logic NERFINISHED
Book IV of A System of Logic NERFINISHED
Book VI of A System of Logic NERFINISHED
subject argumentation
informal logic
logical fallacies
reasoning errors
workIncludedIn A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive NERFINISHED

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A System of Logic hasPart Book V: On Fallacies