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    Semi-logical fallacies are also logical fallacies, but their detection requires extra-logical knowledge

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    • 1.Semi-logical fallacies mostly trade on ambiguous middle terms
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    • 2.Detection of ambiguous middle terms requires knowledge of the senses of terms and knowledge of the subject matter
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    • 1.The distinction between 'logical' and 'extra-logical' knowledge is itself contested: formal validity judgments always presuppose semantic content.
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    • 2.If semantic knowledge is required for all syllogistic evaluation, then no fallacy detection is purely logical, collapsing the semi-logical/logical distinction.
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    • 1.Ryle's category-mistake framework shows that apparent equivocation often reflects deep ontological confusion, not merely ambiguous middle terms.
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    • 2.If the source of invalidity is ontological rather than semantic, detection requires philosophical knowledge that exceeds 'extra-logical' subject-matter knowledge as the claim envisions it.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    By ‘fallacy’ Whately meant “any unsound mode of arguing, which appears to demand our conviction, and to be decisive of the question at hand, when in fairness it is not”’ (Bk. III, intro.). The logical fallacies divide into the purely logical and the semi-logical fallacies. The purely logical fallacies are plain violations of syllogistic rules like undistributed middle and illicit process. The semi-logical fallacies mostly trade on ambiguous middle terms and are therefore also logical fallacies,
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