Sorting Through Sophistries: A Drop of Poison
How do you handle a fallacy that’s right sometimes? Is it even still a fallacy?
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Texts in Context: Darkness on the Mountains
Texts in Context:Darkness on the Mountains By Gabriel Blanchard Here we turn from “the contemplative Sphinx” and “garden-girdled Babylon”1 to a small, enigmatic people, as few in number
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Sorting Through Sophistries: The Scarecrow and the Steel Man
Many fallacies are little more than failures to speak to the point; straw men exhibit this to the nth degree.
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Texts in Context: Irons in the Fire
The stage is now set for the Early Iron Age, much of which could be likened to a statue with a golden head, a silver chest, a bronze belly …
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Sorting Through Sophistries: The Know-Nothings—Part II
Sorting Through Sophistries:The Know-Nothings—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard It is said, and with truth, that numbers don’t lie. Unfortunately, this is only because numbers don’t speak: people, who
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Texts in Context: Timeline of the Bronze Age
Texts in Context:Timeline of the Bronze Age By Gabriel Blanchard A majority of the dates below are approximate and/or conjectural. Those that are especially uncertain are noted with
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Texts in Context: The Late Bronze Age Collapse
Texts in Context:The Late Bronze Age Collapse By Gabriel Blanchard All earthly things come to an end. The Late Bronze Age was no exception; and when it fell,
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Sorting Through Sophistries: The Know-Nothings—Part I
Sorting Through Sophistries:The Know-Nothings—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard One wouldn’t think that ignorance, which is by definition a lack of something, would ramify into a variety of subtly
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Texts in Context: The Bronze Metallists
At its height, the Bronze Age had almost everything we mean by civilization today: war, taxes, commerce, politics, gaudy monuments, and something called “Amazon.”
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Sorting Through Sophistries: Context Is King
The problem with fallacies like cherry-picking is that every word, sentence, book, and thought is meaningful only within its context.
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