Modal fallacy
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modal-fallacy-203-10048144
title:
Modal fallacy
text:
The formal fallacy or the modal fallacy is a special type of fallacy that occurs in modal logic. It is the fallacy of placing a proposition in the wrong modal scope, most commonly confusing the scope of what is necessarily true. A statement is considered necessarily true if and only if it is impossible for the statement to be untrue and that there is no situation that would cause the statement to be false. Some philosophers further argue that a necessarily true statement must be true in all poss
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encyclopedia
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Type of fallacy in modal logic
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_fallacy
date created:
2017-08-26T07:26:40Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T16:15:03Z
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