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    Irrelevant premise fallacies and insufficient premise fallacies are meaningfully distinct categories.

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    • 1.Irrelevant premise fallacies are those in which premises provide no support at all for the conclusion.
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    • 2.Insufficient premise fallacies are those in which premises provide some support for the conclusion, but not enough.
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    • 3.The relevance and sufficiency criteria can be satisfied independently of one another.
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    • 1.Relevance is not a binary property but a scalar one, making the boundary between 'no support' and 'insufficient support' indeterminate.
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    • 2.Carnap and Hempel's confirmation theory shows that evidential support admits of degrees with no principled zero-point distinguishing irrelevance from insufficiency.
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    • 3.Without a principled threshold separating zero support from minimal support, the two categories collapse into a single continuum of evidential weight.
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    • 1.Hitchcock and Govier's pragma-dialectical analyses show that argument evaluation is context-sensitive, making relevance assessable only relative to a dialectical situation.
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    • 2.A premise deemed irrelevant in one dialectical context may provide genuine but insufficient support in another, meaning the categories are not intrinsically distinct but context-dependent.
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    • 3.Categories that shift membership based on pragmatic context cannot constitute meaningfully distinct logical kinds in the way the claim requires.
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    The adoption of the concept of a cogent argument as an ideal has several consequences. The category of fallacies with problematic premises (reminiscent of Whately’s “premises unduly assumed”) shows a concern with argument evaluation over and beyond logical or inference evaluation, drawing the informal logic approach away from purely logical concerns towards an epistemic conception of fallacies. Having both sufficiency and relevance as criteria (instead of the single validity criterion) has the b
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