Research On The John Woods’ Thought Of Fallacy Based On Naturalized Logic

This paper is on the background of the cognitive turning and practical turning of logic. I extract a fallacy theory by means of taking the naturalized logic as research objects and the new book by J.woods as the main reference literature. The main content of this paper is a analysis of J.woods’s ideas about fallacy includes five aspects.The first is the research status. J.woods has his original views about fallacy. With the spreading of J.woods’s ideas about fallacy, many foreign scholars have been influenced, but Chinese scholars haven’t researched into this field even been at a standstill.The second is the overview of J.woods’s ideas. J.woods carried on research devided into two time buckets. In the early stage, the main method is multivariate formal, and the late thoughts changed. J.woods developed the naturalized logic based on cognitive economy and practical reasoning. Then the problem of fallacy will be dealt with this new logic.The third is the details of J.woods’s fallacy theory. Starring with concept-list misalignment thesis and expound the four conditions and discuss the definition of fallacy. To finish these, I can prepare for analyzing the specific fallacy.The forth is some analysis of the specific fallacy. By some specific precedents to analyze the specific fallacy such as ad populum, ad verecundiam and the gambler’s fallacy. And give the reason why these fallacy can’t be called as fallacy.The fifth is evaluation and prospect as a summary. By the discussion before, I give some responses to some doubts about J.woods’s fallacy theory and summarize its contemporary significance and future tendency.