The Fallacy Fallacy: From the Owl of Minerva to the Lark of Arete

The fallacy is either the misdiagnosis of or supposition that conclusion a must be falsehood. This paper explores relevance these and related errors reasoning for appraisal arguments, especially within virtue theories argumentation. In particular, exemplifies Owl Minerva problem, whereby tools devised to understand norm make possible new ways violating norm. Fallacies are such so vices. Hence similar problem arises with argumentative Fortunately, both instances have common remedy.