Teachers of philosophy have long been faced with the vexed question of distinguishing between various types of fallacies. In this article, the writer has tried to reduce the number of fallacies, without excluding any. He has shown that the fallacy of non causa pro causa in not a distinct type of fallacy and that the fallacy of accent and the four fallacies of division, composition, and a dicto simpliciter ad dictum secundum quid are in fact varieties of the same fallacy.
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