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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The aims, scope and method of Aristotle's dialectic. Dialectic is a process of discovery and pedagogy that takes place between two individuals using logical argument, according to Aristotle. To an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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