The Pedagogical Use of Fallacies: Or the Fallacy of the "Fallacy of Fallacies"

Authors

John R. Lyne, University of IowaFollow

Abstract

My position is that fallacies should be retained as pedagogical devices, and that the impetus toward eliminating them reflects a mistaken notion that argument admits of merely descriptive and not critical study. This view, in my opinion, promotes a confusion of the descriptive-critical distinction with a "real-world"-classroom distinction. I would take it as a valid criticism of fallacies as pedagogical devices if it could be shown that they were irrelevant outside the classroom. They are relevant, I believe, as critical and not just descriptive tools.

Journal Title

Iowa Journal of Speech Communication

Volume

13

Issue

2

First Page

1

Last Page

9

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Lyne, John R. (1981) "The Pedagogical Use of Fallacies: Or the Fallacy of the "Fallacy of Fallacies"," Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 13: No. 2, Article 4.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol13/iss2/4

Copyright

©1981 Iowa Communication Association