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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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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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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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: Appeals to Authority
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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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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Douglass: An Author Profile
DouglassAn Author Profile By Winston Brady Slavery is an ineradicable part of our history—and so is the determination to be free. ❧ Full name and titles: Frederick Douglass,
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The Power of the Word
Student Essay: The Power of the Word By Isaac Parks We sometimes think of rhetoric as something devious, but in truth, it can be a force for evil
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Augustine: An Author Profile
AugustineAn Author Profile By Natasha Wilson Augustine’s rhetoric indicates a fundamental clarity of thought which we would be wise to imitate for ourselves. ❧ Full name and titles:
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