When considering your argument or the arguments of others, writers and readers need to be aware of logical fallacies. Logical fallacies are found in many places—ads, politics, movies. Logical ...

This fallacy and the next one involve mistakes in conditional "if-then" statements. "If A, then B" in a logical context just means that whenever A is true, B is also true. Similarly, "All A's are ...

And every time I see this appeal to AI, my first thought is the same: Are you fucking stupid or something? For some time now, ...

The following is an alphabetical list of the logical fallacies we study in this course. Each fallacy is followed by a description of the proper method for identifying the fallacy (ID) when it occurs ...

The Identification of fallacies is a three step process. 1. Name the fallacy. 2. Define the fallacy. 3. Show how the definition fits the example in question. The first two steps are simply a matter of ...

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Let’s define those terms for our discussion. A hasty generalization is a logical fallacy that makes an assumption based on a ...

While the questions themselves involve made-up arguments and the answer choices vary in wording, the flaws in the reasoning are often common logical fallacies studied since antiquity. For example ...

Bryce Hoffman writes about leadership, strategy, and decision making. The base rate fallacy is a cognitive bias that causes us to ignore or undervalue general information and instead focus on data ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Bryce Hoffman writes about leadership, strategy, and decision making. The gambler’s fallacy is a common ...