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The article draws a parallel between two non-traditional approaches to the construction of the fallacy theory; those are the approach which is developed in joint works by J. Woods and D. Walton and later in D. Walton's independent work "A Pragmatic Theory of Fallacies" (1995), on the one hand, and the one presented in a series of works on interrogative epistemology by J. Hintikka, on the other hand. We show that despite the difference in the premises which underlies these approaches, both of them tend to pragmatizing the concept of fallacy, which causes a similarity of the conclusions resulting from their application.