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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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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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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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:Appeals to Authority By Gabriel Blanchard Is it an error in reasoning to appeal to authority for one’s beliefs? Certainly not; but then again, very much
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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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“History is a pack of tricks we play on the dead,” “History is written by the victors,” “History is bunk,” etc.—these are all evaluations of history. But before we decide whose fault it is, what is history?
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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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To err is human; to forgive is divine; logically, then, it must be diabolical to subalternate.
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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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