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    Supports→The epistemic approach to fallacies will include logical fallacies, but logical fallacies must also be explicable in terms of epistemic seriousness.

    The epistemic account holds that the function of arguments is epistemic.

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    Biro and Siegel’s epistemic account of fallacies is distinguishable in at least three ways. First, it insists that the function of arguments is epistemic, and therefore anything that counts as a fallacy must be an epistemic fault, a breaking of a rule of epistemic justification. But since logical faults are also epistemic faults, the epistemic approach to fallacies will include logical fallacies, although these must also be explicable in terms of epistemic seriousness. Second, since the epistemo

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