Editing Argument from fallacy (section)

==Form==
An argument from fallacy has the following general [[argument form]]:

{{poemquote
|If P, then Q.
P is a fallacious argument.
Therefore, Q is false.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Morge |first=M. |year=2008 |title=The Argument Clinic: A Baloney Detection Kit. |url=http://www.di.unipi.it/~morge/publis/morge08pisa_show.pdf |journal=PhD Lunchtime Seminar |publisher=Dipartemento di Informatica, Pisa |page=20 |access-date=2010-06-09}}{{poemquote|
''c'' since A
''A'' is fallacious
¬''c''}}</ref>}}

Thus, it is a special case of [[denying the antecedent]] where the antecedent, rather than being a proposition that is false, is an entire argument that is fallacious. A fallacious argument, just as with a false antecedent, can still have a consequent that happens to be true. The fallacy is in concluding the consequent of a fallacious argument has to be false.

That the argument is fallacious only means that the argument cannot succeed in proving its consequent.<ref>John Woods, [https://books.google.com/books?id=fixdSW0eGlAC ''The death of argument: fallacies in agent based reasoning''], [[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]] 2004, pp. XXIII–XXV</ref> But showing how one argument in a complex thesis is fallaciously reasoned does not necessarily invalidate its conclusion if that conclusion is not dependent on the fallacy.