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  1. Knowledge by deduction.Lawrence H. Powers - 1978 - Philosophical Review 87 (3):337-371.
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    The One Fallacy Theory.Lawrence H. Powers - 1995 - Informal Logic 17 (2).
    My One Fallacy theory says there is only one fallacy: equivocation, or playing on an ambiguity. In this paper I explain how this theory arose from rnetaphilosophical concerns. And I contrast this theory with purely logical, dialectical, and psychological notions of fallacy.
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    Ad Hominem Arguments.Lawrence H. Powers - unknown
    Ad hominem arguments argue that some opponent should not be heard and no argument of that opponent should be heard or considered. The opponent has generally pernicious views, false and harmful. Moreover he is diabolically clever at arguing for his views. Thus, the ad hominem argument is essentially a device by which non-intellectuals try to wrest control of a dialectical situation from intellectuals. Stifling intellectuals, disrupting the dialectical situation, is an unpleasant conclusion, but no fallacy has been shown in what (...)
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    Dividing by Zero—and Other Mathematical Fallacies.Lawrence H. Powers - 2013 - In Andrew Aberdein & Ian J. Dove (eds.), The Argument of Mathematics. Dordrecht, Netherland: Springer. pp. 173--179.
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    A problem in the one-fallacy theory.Lawrence H. Powers - unknown
    According to the one-fallacy theory, the only real fallacy is equivocation. In particular, the fallacy of incomplete evidence draws a conclusion inductively from parts of our evidence while ignoring other parts of it which undermine the conclusion. T his is an equivocation on the relative term 'probable': the conclusion is probable relative to a part of our evidence but not relative to the whole of it. Unfortunately, this view is not entirely consistent with my meta-theory of fallacies which allows t (...)
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    (1 other version)Commentary on: Andrei Moldovan's "Denying the antecedent and conditional perfection again".Lawrence H. Powers - unknown
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    Commentary on Edwards.Lawrence H. Powers - unknown
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    Commentary on Pinto.Lawrence H. Powers - unknown
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    Commentary on Ritola.Lawrence H. Powers - unknown
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    Commentary on van Laar.Lawrence H. Powers - unknown
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    On philosophy and its history.Lawrence H. Powers - 1986 - Philosophical Studies 50 (1):1 - 38.
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    Statistical Syllogistic, Part 1.Lawrence H. Powers - unknown
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    A more effective average: A note on distributive justice. [REVIEW]Lawrence H. Powers - 1970 - Philosophical Studies 21 (5):74 - 78.