Recently I've been deep-diving into a model of brain, mind, and behavior—active inference and the free energy principle—developed by a leading neuroscientist and computational psychiatrist ...

Sometimes A causes B and B causes A. In these cases a person can commits the fallacy only if his reasoning depends on an ignorance of one of these relationships. Slippery Slope. Def.: Claiming that ...

You use rules of inference in almost every aspect of your life daily. That brings us back to the starting point: the “premise.” A premise must be true if it is going to support an argument.

In simple terms, a logical fallacy is a flaw in reasoning that weakens your argument; you’ve drawn a conclusion based on ...

This is a fallacy, because for any particular roll, the odds of, say, getting a double six are the same: 1/36. How many times the gambler has rolled that night has no bearing on whether the next ...

One explanation for the wrong turns taken in the academic study of international relations might be the Correlates of War project, now based at Penn State. By offering massive data sets on war, it has ...

In particular, he thinks "I'm hot 'cause I'm fly / You ain't [hot] 'cause you're not [fly]" is an example of the fallacy. I disagree. Nyhan's reading depends on construing MIMS as trying to make a ...

Previously in this series I have given an overview of the main types of study design and the techniques used to minimise biased results. In this article I describe more fully ecological studies ...

Recently I've been deep-diving into a model of brain, mind, and behavior—active inference and the free energy principle—developed by a leading neuroscientist and computational psychiatrist ...