Theory of Philosophical Fallacies

“The volume under review is an English translation of that edition by Fernando Leal and David Carus with an introduction and annotations by Leal. … The book should hold significant interest for argumentation theorists for several distinct reasons. … this book makes a salutary contribution to several enduring debates in the analysis of argument. Its translation into English is to be welcomed.” (Andrew Aberdein, Argumentation, Vol. 31, 2017)

• Introduction.- The dialectical illusion in philosophy.- On coherence and truth as properties of a philosophical system.- The logistic prejudice in the philosophy of the Schoolmen and in rationalism.- Kant overcomes the rationalistic prejudice: the distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments.-  The distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments further explored.- Significance and fruitfulness of the analytic-synthetic distinction.- Synthetic a priori judgments in geometry: the disjunction between logic and experience is incomplete.- Geometric logicism.- Geometric empiricism.