ABSTRACT
Fallacy Theory In 1970, the Australian logician C.L. Hamblin delivered a broadside to the logic community for having given up on the fallacies program and surrendering it to writers of introductory textbooks in which:
[A] writer throws away logic and keeps the reader’s attention, if at all, only by detailing the traditional puns, anecdotes, and witless examples of his forbears. ‘Everything that runs has feet; the river runs; therefore the river has feet’ {?} this is a medieval example, but the modern ones are no better.
