1. A similar inventory of fallacies has been dubbed “the gang ofeighteen” by John Woods (1992).
2.Meditations on First Philosophy, Dedication.
3. ‘Deduction’ has replaced ‘syllogism’ as theway to translate ‘sullogismos’. See Corcoran (1974), Smith(1997), and Irwin and Fine (1996).
4. Whately (1875) has an extensive Appendix of 50 pages discussing 30 ormore terms “peculiarly liable to be used ambiguously.”
5. Accident, converse accident andpetitio principii were notincluded in the first edition of Copi’sIntroduction toLogic, 1953.
6. Govier (1987) and Johnson (1989) have questioned the significance ofthe asymmetry thesis for informal logic.
7. See Govier (1988), Freeman (1988).
8. The scheme that Walton prefers is much more complicated (2010, 168)but the present abbreviated version serves to illustrate the role ofcritical questions.
9. At (2010, 179) Walton says that a fallacy is an argument that seemsto be correct but is not (echoing Copi).
10. Defenders of SDF include Salmon (1963) and Powers (1995).
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