Taxonomies for fallacies

We know that there are several taxonomies for fallacies. This fantastic site, when explaining a fallacy, does not refer to any classification (except to distinguish similar cases). Is there a reason for this choice?

asked on Wednesday, Dec 30, 2020 02:03:04 PM by TrappedPrior (RotE)

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0	TrappedPrior (RotE) writes: What taxonomies would you suggest? Would you group them alphabetically too, as Dr Bo does, or by structure (formal vs. informal, propositional vs. categorical, etc)?
	posted on Thursday, Dec 31, 2020 04:02:33 PM

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Bo Bennett, PhD 2	Yes, the reason is too much overlap. I have not found an organizational system that works well and is accurate. So I just list them alphabetically.
	answered on Wednesday, Dec 30, 2020 03:15:06 PM by Bo Bennett, PhD
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