To persuade you, people often try to use logical fallacies (Credit: Javier Hirschfeld) When people are trying to persuade you, they sometimes reach for underhand tricks like the 'appeal to ignorance' ...

As a philosophy professor who teaches logic and critical thinking — the study of good and bad arguments and forms of reasoning — I have been a keen observer of the arguments given for and against ...

The two most important types of logic on the LSAT are conditional and causal reasoning. Conditional reasoning may be phrased in various ways, but it can be essentially reduced to if-then statements.

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 ...

As the holidays approach you will probably get into political and cultural debates with family and friends. We at Snopes have put together a guide on the nature of fallacies, particularly false ...

Using Aristotle's dialectic to define Aristotle's dialectic. Dialectic, unlike logic, is concerned with particular individuals with whom we are engaged with in argument. The argument proceeds by ...