Some Common Fallacies in Political Thinking

I Want to discuss and illustrate in this paper certain fallacies which we are all very liable to commit in our thinking about political and social questions. Perhaps “thinking” is rather too high-sounding a name to attach to the mental processes which lie behind most political talk. It is at any rat...

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Published in:Philosophy (London) 1950-04, Vol.25 (93), p.99-113
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Raw materials
War
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