The fallacy of reaching an affirmative conclusion from a negative premise is a part of formal logic. That is, the problem with the fallacy is with how the argument is structured and not its content. How this fallacy occurs is explained by its name. Nonetheless, in order to understand it better we have to call…
Category: Formal Syllogistic Fallacies
Formal syllogistic fallacies are a category of fallacies that fail to abide to the rules of syllogistic reasoning, arriving at a false conclusion though faulty deductive reasoning from two presises that may or may not be true.