Sorting Through Sophistries: Disfigures of Speech
Today, we conclude our review of the first great genus of fallacies with a glance at fallacious treatment of idioms.
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G. K. Chesterton: An Author Profile
A romantic English patriot and devout Catholic convert; a friend of Shaw and Orwell and an enemy of modernity; an opponent of socialism and a staunch foe of capitalism: the paradoxes of Chesterton make an elegant closing flourish for our series on the Author Bank.
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Sorting Through Sophistries: A Pair of Pseuds
To err is human; to forgive is divine; logically, then, it must be diabolical to subalternate.
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Sorting Through Sophistries: The Ambiguous Fallacies
What are fallacies of ambiguity? What is equivocation? What is a motte-and-bailey? Read on to learn these things and more.
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Sorting Through Sophistries: What Is a Fallacy?
“Sophistry” may not sound like the kind of thing that could affect our everyday lives, unless we’re professional academics. But the truth is, in the information age, it’s more important than ever to be able to detect bad thinking at a glance.
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Introducing Two New Series: “Sophistries” and “The Author Bank in History”
What else is there to a conversation, besides who spoke in it and about what? Surprisingly, quite a bit.
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Homer: An Author Profile
The principal literary quality of this, perhaps the most shadowy of all the figures on the CLT Author Bank, is a little ironic.
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What Does “The Great Conversation” Mean?
In fairness to Alice, judging by our recently-concluded tour of the wonder-land of ideas, we must concede that the books generally do lack pictures. Conversations, however …
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Dante: An Author Profile, Continued
DanteAn Author ProfileSecond Canto: Vita Nuova By Gabriel Blanchard From the depths of political, personal, and spiritual defeat, Dante went on—”God knoweth how”—to write one of the great
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Dante: An Author Profile
The canon of literature is like a lofty tower, composed by hands that seem superhuman (for “there were giants in the earth in those days”). Yet one poet surpassed storied Babel; for he did “reach unto heaven, and make a name.”
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