ABSTRACT

Pat's reactions range from quick understanding and correction of the fallacy to failure to understand and then to compound multiple fallacies. Aggression is the intentional infliction of harm on others, while grey behavior, as used in this book, is an effort to mislead others to convince them. The goal of aggression is to harm while the goal of grey behaviors is persuasion. Grey behavior starts with a bad argument called a fallacy. In applications of process described in Grey Behaviors after Logical Fallacies in Public and Professional Communication, assessors observe and rate behaviors of people to assign a value to them. In fallacies of Induction, arguments that are supposed to raise the probability of their conclusions are so weak as to fail almost entirely to do so. Formal fallacies result from a failure of form, which refers to the way the argument is set up.