The following is an alphabetical list of the logical fallacies we study in this course ... MID: A person who attempts to refute all evidence produced against a claim does not necessarily commit this ...

When considering your argument or the arguments of others, writers and readers need to be aware of logical fallacies. Logical fallacies are found in many places—ads, politics, movies. Logical ...

This fallacy and the next one involve mistakes in conditional "if-then" statements. "If A, then B" in a logical context just means that whenever A is true, B is also true. Similarly, "All A's are ...

Butch: Right, I feel sorry for those poor little murderers, too. Let's just release them all and tell them to be nice from now on. This is a straightforward example of the fallacy of Straw Person.

Without a time machine, there is no way to know if this is true, but further, the line of thinking falls into a logical ...

like all testy people, the LSAT test-makers are jerks. This fallacy is called "equivocation," or ambiguity. Equivocal arguments confuse multiple, conflicting meanings of a term while logical ...

I think it is both possible and necessary for people to disagree with each other constructively on important matters. All ...