"In Defense of Fallacies"

I like how XRLQ handled this: provocative and rigorous at the same time.

UPDATE: If i was ambitious today I would dig out my copy of David Hackett Fischer's Historians's Fallacies and work up a related post. One of his key points is that in the real world, we have to use adductive reasoning, which Fischer describes as the process "of adducing answers to specific questions, so that a satisfactory explanatory 'fit' is obtained."