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    It is not the case that Therefore, the wrongness of logical fallacies is fully explicable in syntactic terms without invoking epistemic seriousness as a necessary condition.

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    • 1.An argument's logical form is syntactically identical whether premises are vacuous, metaphorical, or substantive—yet intuitive wrongness varies.
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    • 2.Syntactic rules alone cannot explain why some formally invalid arguments retain rational persuasiveness in serious epistemic contexts.
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    • 3.The normativity of logic depends on its role in truth-seeking; purely syntactic description lacks the evaluative force needed to ground wrongness.
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    • 1.Logical fallacies violate formal rules of valid inference regardless of the propositions' truth-value or epistemic status.
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    • 2.The defect in begging the question or affirming the consequent is purely structural and detectable through syntactic analysis alone.
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    • 3.Epistemic seriousness concerns speaker intention and belief-formation, which are separable from logical form's normativity.
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