The Last Straw Fallacy: Another Causal Fallacy and Its Harmful Effects

Autor:	Mark Peter, Carolyn M. Cusick
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Fallacy of the single cause Fallacy Linguistics and Language Philosophy Formal fallacy Economics Fallacy of four terms Fallacy of division Conjunction fallacy Informal fallacy Epistemology Deductive fallacy
Zdroj:	Argumentation. 29:457-474
ISSN:	1572-8374 0920-427X
DOI:	10.1007/s10503-014-9339-x
Popis:	We have noticed a pattern of arguments that exhibit a type of irrationality or a particular informal logical fallacy that is not fully captured by any existing fallacy. This fallacy can be explored through three examples where one misattributes a cause by focusing on a smaller portion of a larger set—specifically, the last or least known—and claiming that that cause holds a unique priority over other contributing factors for the occurrence of an event. We propose to call this fallacy the “last straw fallacy” and will argue why these examples actually warrant a new logical name. Finally, we will show how these cases point to a deeper insight about the contexts in which we typically invoke this type of reasoning and some significant harmful consequences of doing so.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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