On the Custom of “A Gap Year”
After twelve (or more) years of school, not all of us want to immediately sign up for an additional four years of school! Is there merit in the idea of taking a gap year?
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After twelve (or more) years of school, not all of us want to immediately sign up for an additional four years of school! Is there merit in the idea of taking a gap year?
On the Custom of “A Gap Year” Read More »
The problem with fallacies like cherry-picking is that every word, sentence, book, and thought is meaningful only within its context.
Sorting Through Sophistries: Context Is King Read More »
A catch in the whole system of logic is the same thing as what makes it work in the first place: it is no “respecter of persons.”
Sorting Through Sophistries: Tu Quoque, Brute Read More »
We here at the CLT Journal are not here to assign blame. That’s for the tu quoque to do.
Sorting Through Sophistries: The Hominem Family Read More »
Regrettably, we don’t always need someone else to lead us down the garden path of sophistry; we’re very capable walkers, thanks, and feel sure we can find it unassisted.
Sorting Through Sophistries: Mental Solitaire Read More »
Time is sometimes depicted as an ouroboros, a serpent eating its tail, a symbol of cyclical recurrence. History is like a bask of crocodiles: they are related to snakes, but have extra features that may distract us, to our peril.
Texts in Context: The Crocodile of Chronology Read More »
To err is human; to forgive is divine; logically, then, it must be diabolical to subalternate.
Sorting Through Sophistries: A Pair of Pseuds Read More »
Many people don’t get nearly as much as they could out of their education, because they never learn one thing: how their own minds work. We’ve got a few leads on that.
The Study of How to Study Read More »
We mostly think of teaching as what a book or teacher tells pupils, and that’s true as far as it goes. But a great deal is also told to pupils by the things books and teachers do not say.
Education by Implication Read More »