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PRONUNCIATION OF FALLACY OF MANY QUESTIONS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FALLACY OF MANY QUESTIONS

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Fallacy of many questions is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FALLACY OF MANY QUESTIONS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Complex question

A complex question, trick question, multiple question or plurium interrogationum is a question that has a presupposition that is complex. The presupposition is a proposition that is presumed to be acceptable to the respondent when the question is asked. The respondent becomes committed to this proposition when he gives any direct answer. The presupposition is called "complex" because it is a conjunctive proposition, a disjunctive proposition, or a conditional proposition. It could also be another type of proposition that contains some logical connective in a way that makes it have several parts that are component propositions. Complex questions can but do not have to be fallacious, as in being an informal fallacy.

Definition of fallacy of many questions in the English dictionary

The definition of fallacy of many questions in the dictionary is the rhetorical trick of asking a question that cannot be answered without admitting a presupposition that may be false, as have you stopped beating your wife?.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FALLACY OF MANY QUESTIONS

fall to the ground
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fallacies
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fallaciousness
fallacy
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fallalishly
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WORDS THAT END LIKE FALLACY OF MANY QUESTIONS

accommodations
alterations
combinations
communications
conditions
congratulations
connections
directions
foundations
frequently asked questions
go through the motions
instructions
limitations
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Synonyms and antonyms of fallacy of many questions in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «fallacy of many questions» into 25 languages

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The translations of fallacy of many questions from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fallacy of many questions» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

许多问题的谬论
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

falacia de las muchas preguntas
570 millions of speakers

English

fallacy of many questions
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कई सवालों का भ्रम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مغالطة العديد من الأسئلة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Ошибочность многих вопросов
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

falácia de muitas perguntas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অনেক প্রশ্ন ভুল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fausseté de nombreuses questions
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesalahan banyak soalan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Trugschluss der viele Fragen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

多くの質問の誤謬
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

많은 질문 의 착오
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kejaba akeh pitakonan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sai lầm của nhiều câu hỏi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பல கேள்விகளின் வீழ்ச்சி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनेक प्रश्नांचे भ्रमनिरास
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Birçok soru yanıltıcı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fallacia di molte domande
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

błędem wielu pytań
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Помилковість багатьох питань
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

eroare de multe întrebări
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πλάνη των πολλών ερωτημάτων
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dwaling van baie vrae
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

vanföreställning av många frågor
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

feilslutning av mange spørsmål
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FALLACY OF MANY QUESTIONS»

Discover the use of fallacy of many questions in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fallacy of many questions and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy
fallacy of clearness, see fallacy of ambiguity fallacy of the complex question, another name for fallacy of many questions fallacy of composition Logic An erroneous kind of reasoning that argues that if each part of a whole has a certain property, ...
Nicholas Bunnin, Jiyuan Yu, 2008
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The Principles of Logic
Criticise the following definitions : (a) A fallacy of many questions is one in which many irrelevant questions are asked which cannot be answered directly by Yes or No and which confuse the argument. (b) The fallacy of many questions is the ...
Herbert Austin Aikins, 1902
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The Many Roots of Medieval Logic: The Aristotelian and the ...
Belonging to this group are the fallacy of the consequent, the fallacy of begging the question; the fallacy of non-cause as cause; and the fallacy of many questions.18 But since the phenomena provoking these fallacies belong to the ...
John Marenbon, 2007
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Courage, a Philosophical Investigation
See Douglas N. Walton, "The Fallacy of Many Questions," Logique et Analyse 95- 96 (1981):291-313. 3. Questions of how to deal with descriptions of actions are taken up more generally in the last chapter. The particular problem posed at this  ...
Douglas N. Walton, 1986
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Summulae de Dialectica:
(11) The fallacy of many questions as one, therefore, or its converse, is a deception arising from the fact that it is not known which question is one or which many, nor, consequently, to which one should give one response or many responses.
Jean Buridan, 2001
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Dictionary of World Philosophy
The fallacy of many questions is the tactic of asking questions by packing presuppositions in them that will be implied by any yes or no answer to the questions, e.g. "Have you quit beating your little brother?" The fallacy of secundum quid is the ...
A. Pablo Iannone, 2013
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The New Dialectic: Conversational Contexts of Argument
The fallacy of many questions, also often called the fallacy of complex question, is the tactic of packing presumptions into a question in such a manner that any direct answer will trap a respondent into damaging concessions. The classic case ...
Douglas N. Walton, 1998
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Greek, Indian and Arabic Logic
73-74]: “The Fallacies of Begging the Question and Many Questions depend in conception, more than any other kinds, on the context of contentious argument The Fallacy of Many Questions can occur only when there is actually a questioner ...
Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods, 2004
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Dialogue and Rhetoric
... presenting something as an accepted starting point — fallacy of making unfair use of presuppositions in making assertions — fallacy of making unfair use of presuppositions in asking questions (= fallacy of many questions) — fallacy of using ...
Edda Weigand, 2008
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Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory: A Handbook of ...
A clear example is the fallacy of many questions, which belongs to Aristotle's category of language-independent fallacies. The many questions fallacy occurs when a question is asked that can only be answered by answering at the same time ...
Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst, Ralph H. Johnson, 2013

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FALLACY OF MANY QUESTIONS»

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Mawlid and understanding the Sharia
... but literally a textbook example of a fallacy called plurium interrogationum (the fallacy of many questions). The person who left that comment ... «MuslimVillage.com, Dec 14»
2
Japan's Whale Ban Opponents Feast on Whale Meat
... and in this case an entrapment, because it narrows the respondent to a single answer, and the fallacy of many questions has been committed ... «Ecorazzi, Apr 14»
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David Stern to Jim Rome: “Have you stopped beating your wife yet?”
... and in this case an entrapment, because it narrows the respondent to a single answer, and the fallacy of many questions has been committed ... «Waiting For Next Year, Jun 12»

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