Healthy Skepticism Library item: 17694
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Publication type: Journal Article
Tait G
The Logic of ADHD: A Brief Review of Fallacious Reasoning
Studies in Philosophy and Education 2009 May; 28:(3):239-254
http://www.springerlink.com/content/x37lh34l07234336/
Abstract:
Abstract:Â Â This paper has two central purposes: the first is to survey some
of the more important examples of fallacious argument, and the second is to
examine the frequent use of these fallacies in support of the psychological
construct: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The paper
divides 12 familiar fallacies into three different categories-material,
psychological and logical-and contends that advocates of ADHD often seem to
employ these fallacies to support their position. It is suggested that all
researchers, whether into ADHD or otherwise, need to pay much closer
attention to the construction of their arguments if they are not to make
truth claims unsupported by satisfactory evidence, form or logic.
