Attacking Faulty Reasoning the five criteria of a good argument: Each fallacy falls into at least one of Damer's five fallacy categories, which derive from the above criteria. The text also sets forth 12 principles that constitute a "Code of Conduct for Effective Discussion." This code incorporates Damer’s fallacy theory and provides a procedural and ethical standard for the development of an effective intellectual style to be used when engaging in a rational discussion of important issues. Attacking Faulty Reasoning Attacking Faulty Reasoning is a textbook on logical fallacies by T. Edward Damer that has been used for many years in a number
Faulty generalization a prime number. Therefore, the person says, all odd numbers are either prime or square. In reality, 15 is a counterexample. The fallacy is also known as: When referring to a generalization made from a single example it has been called the fallacy of the lonely fact or the proof by example fallacy. When evidence is intentionally excluded to bias the result, it is sometimes termed the fallacy of exclusion and is a form of selection bias. Faulty generalization A faulty generalization is a conclusion about all or many instances of a phenomenon that has been reached on the basis