Yuri Arcurs peopleimages.com / Getty Images/iStockphoto When I was in college, I remember naively signing up for a course called “Introduction to Logic.” It turned out to be one of the greatest ...

Patent prosecution involves one side arguing for, and another side arguing against, the validity of claims in a patent application. This takes the form of a written discourse, in which an Examiner for ...

Ah, nothing like a little logical paradox for Christmas. Today we will look at how to make a valid argument—that disagrees with itself and makes no sense. Dive in to the paradox of entailment. When ...

Back in 1955, Rudolph Flesch wrote a landmark book entitled Why Johnnie Can’t Read . Someone now needs to write a book called Why Johnnie Can’t Think . It’s not only a real thing, but as many college ...

Synthese, Vol. 192, No. 4, Special Section on PEIRCE'S LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE (April 2015), pp. 1157-1171 (15 pages) We can distinguish two non-equivalent ways in which a natural language ...

For the majority the most convincing speaker in a debate is the loudest, most wildly gesticulating person. Validity of his argument be damned. Welcome to populist politics in Pakistan and around the ...

Belief bias is one of the most common forms of cognitive bias. It has probably altered your acceptance of arguments more than you would like to admit. Belief bias is a type of cognitive bias wherein ...

During arguments, people often use emotional appeals like being angry or offended as means of demonstrating passion or correctness. This is a habit we need to collectively break. Strong emotions do ...

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