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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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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The Great Conversation: Authority—Part V
The Great Conversation: Authortity—Part V By Gabriel Blanchard The authority of the scholar contains certain ironies that may not show at a glance … This post is Part
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Kant: An Author Profile
KantAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard We find ourselves to be in a modern world; whose fault is it? The traditional and perhaps best answer here is “Hegel,”
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The Great Conversation: Knowledge
The Great Conversation: Knowledge By Gabriel Blanchard They say a little learning is a dangerous thing … Writing about knowledge is a tricky business: everything we either write
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The Great Conversation: Truth
The Great Conversation: Truth By Kate Colón-Crespo “What is truth?” The question leveled at Jesus at his trial is one of the great questions of humanity. A definition
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The Great Conversation: Idea—Part II
The Great Conversation: Idea—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard The pendulum of Western thought continues to swing between Plato and Aristotle, yet from radically different pivots … Go here
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James: An Author Profile
JamesAn Author Profile By Matt McKeown The work of William James has shaped all later discussions of academic fields from psychotherapy to mysticism. The last third of the
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The Great Conversation: Opinion
The Great Conversation: Opinion By Matt McKeown Opinion sounds like an easy thing to understand, but it ramifies quickly … Opinion is one of the oldest topics in
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