Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought

Type

Book

Authors

David Hackett Fischer

ISBN 10

0061315451

ISBN 13

9780061315459

Tags

Historiography, Reference, History

Abstract

Part I. Inquiry. Fallacies of question-framing -- Fallacies of factual verification -- Fallacies of factual significance -- Part II. Explanation. Fallacies of generalization -- Fallacies of narration -- Fallacies of causation -- Fallacies of motivation -- Fallacies of composition -- Fallacies of false analogy -- Part III. Argument. Fallacies of semantical distortion -- Fallacies of substantive distraction.

Description

xxii, 338 pages 24 cm.

Biblio Notes

Includes bibliographical references.
60580

Number of Copies