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Introduction to Fallacies: "This website presents my attempt to make sense of the bewildering subject of bad reasoning. Many philosophers have attempted to name and classify types of fallacies, but no list or classification scheme has so far managed to be comprehensive. This list is also incomplete. In fact, I believe any list of fallacies must necessarily be a work-in-progress, since the use of fallacious reasoning is itself constantly changing. The fallacies that were well-known to the ancient Greeks and Romans were the fallacies used by politicians and orators. We still have politicians and orators today, so those fallacies are still with us; but we also have to keep track of fallacies used by advertisers and the news media. With the advance of science we have had to keep up on the fallacies involved in scientific (and pseudo-scientific) reasoning. As new public institutions emerge, no doubt new forms of fallacious reasoning will arise with them. We logicians need to stay alert."

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