When I was young, I was transfixed by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! As I viewed and reviewed the drawings that appeared in the newspaper, I learned about a great many jaw-dropping oddities. But of all ...

We are Minnesota State University Moorhead students in a practical reasoning class where we learn about arguments and the various fallacies that go along with them. The letter mentioned below was used ...

In an era of “post-truth” and “truthiness,” it can be hard to defend the common-sense belief that reality exists independently of how people think about it. Skepticism about reality comes in many ...

In this blog, I introduce a fallacy to the list of “Cardinal Fallacies” in Logic-Based Therapy. I call this fallacy the Fact-Loading Fallacy because it involves embedding a value judgment (often ...