The Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies Beginning with Aristotle, the first logician to name fallacies, most logicians who have studied fallacies have classified them into types . Aristotle classified his list of fallacies into two types: - Linguistic: Those which depend on language.
- Non-linguistic: Those which do not depend on language.
Subsequent logicians have usually extended Aristotle's classification by subdividing the second, non-linguistic, category into, for instance, fallacies of relevance and fallacies of presumption. However, most such classifications have remained relatively "flat", with all fallacies on the same level, but a flat classification does not do justice to the complexity of the logical relations between different fallacies. In recent years, some logicians have begun to make use of the notion of a subfallacy , that is, a fallacy which is a specific version of a more general fallacy. A subfallacy has whatever features the more general fallacy has, together with specific features which set it apart and make it worth naming in its own right. Logical Fallacy Appeal to Celebrity is a subfallacy of Appeal to Misleading Authority, which is itself a subfallacy of the Genetic Fallacy. This means that Appeal to Celebrity is a | |
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