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 ...

The two main political parties have a long history of disputes and disagreements over a plethora of complex issues. When it comes to engaging in political discussions, it is often hard for members of ...

The Economist magazine published a fallacy argumentative report with a title: “The era of oil for the Arab Gulf states is over”. Engineers work before facts while economists work after facts. Simply ...

The no miracles argument is one of the main arguments for scientific realism. Recently it has been alleged that the no miracles argument is fundamentally flawed because it commits the base rate ...

During an intellectual battle, one's true colours are tested. The side losing ground, as a last resort to assert tenacity, turns argumentation into sophistry. Objectivity becomes the worst casualty ...

The "follow the money" argument is an intellectually lazy fallacy. However, if you really do think that money will change our minds, then write us a check. Glance through any sufficiently long ...

40 year investment veteran Steve Reitmeister does not buy the bullish argument that is gaining speed as the S&P 500 (SPY) closes above 4,200. In fact, he says the set up for a serious correction and ...

I don’t mean to pick on Dargan Pete again, but his Jan. 15 column is a classic example of the “straw man” logical fallacy. For those readers who didn’t have a secondary school English class unit on ...

Arguments are attempts to persuade by providing reasons (or premises or propositions) in support of a particular claim (or conclusion). In a deductive or ‘truth-preserving’ argument, the conclusion ...

It has been suggested that approximately five exabytes (i.e. about 5,000,000,000 pickup truck beds full of information typed on paper) of data are created each day. What is tougher to decipher is how ...