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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Sorting Through Sophistries: Tu Quoque, Brute
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.”
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Sorting Through Sophistries: The Hominem Family
We here at the CLT Journal are not here to assign blame. That’s for the tu quoque to do.
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Sorting Through Sophistries: Mental Solitaire
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.
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Texts in Context: The Crocodile of Chronology
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.
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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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The Study of How to Study
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.
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Education by Implication
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.
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Applying to College: A High School Student’s Timeline
Today, high school; tomorrow, college—it can feel overwhelming! Here are some tips for high school students, year by year, to be ready when application time comes.
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