RT Journal Article
T1 Epidemiology of fallacies
A1 Duarte Calvo, Antonio Jaime
AB In this paper I apply the epidemiological model of the spread of beliefs and how they become cultural representations to the field of fallacies. The model suggests that beliefs tend to replicate as a virus does in a potential epidemic, and those strains that are dominant in a given socio-cultural sphere become cultural representations. My ultimate aim is to denounce the fact that some presumptive argumentation schemes are widely applied as definitive arguments, but turn out to be instances of common and traditional fallacies. Moreover, some such fallacies have managed to colonise the human mind and become cultural representations in society today. Adopting the approach I advocate here, we could say that the fallacy has become a belief, which has then managed to replicate like a virus, and finally the fallacy has become a cultural representation. One of the great harms that results from this process is that it is very difficult to open up effective lines of argument that expose the fallacious nature of these new and perverse cultural representations.
PB Springer Nature
SN 0920-427X
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/104706
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/104706
LA eng
NO Duarte, A. (2024). Epidemiology of Fallacies. Argumentation. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-024-09634-z
NO 2024 Acuerdos transformativos CRUE.Fondos FEDER.Apoyo económico de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid a través del grupo de investigación “Lenguaje, pensamiento y realidad” (930174).
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
NO European Regional Development Fund
NO European Commission
NO Universidad Complutense de Madrid
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 abr 2025