8 days ago by Troythulu

Well, well. My Troythuluness has finally gotten off his star-born duff and completed this, the final (thank Azathoth!) installment in this series of the top 20 forms of specious reasoning. This time we’ll discuss an error known as the Unstated Major Premise. In any argument (note that I’m not talkin ...

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9 days ago by Troythulu

Greetings, humans. It’s been almost a year since I began this series of the Top 20 errors in reasoning and argumentation, and as this blog’s resident eldritch entity from beyond spacetime, my Troythuluness’ cosmically (and comically) evil servitors on staff have requested that I wrap up this series ...

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9 days ago by theskepticalsamurai

Logical Fallacies 101 is a regular segment of the Skeptical Samurai blog that deals specifically with logical fallacies (an introduction to logical fallacies can be found here: http://theskepticalsamurai.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/logical-fallacies-101/ ). It is my hope that Logical Fallacies 101 will ...

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12 days ago by scaryreasoner

Karen Armstrong has a post up on Sam Harris’s site: Think Again: God Go read it. It’s short, and stupid. It consists mainly of a singly logical fallacy, appeal to consequences Karen seems to think that most of humanity cannot live without the “meaning” provided by religion. Of course this is a logic ...

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12 days ago by James Daniel Ross

Lately I have found myself on a very long, very cold, and very narrow branch, labeled very clearly: ‘ I have opinions.’ Overall I believe that entertainers, and I count myself amongst that group, should shut the hell up and entertain. We should not advocate, pontificate, or vilify, because too many ...

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14 days ago by The Armchair Antichrist

The religious are quick to point out the “evils” of atheism and secularism. They say that more people have died under the “atheistic” regimes of Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot than by the hands of the religious or in religious conflicts. However, Hitler was a Christian and none of these other dictators ...

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18 days ago by J. Anthony Holloway

Derailment Let loose those frenzied girls of mourning How high these thought balloons do burst I’m longing for a herald smile “A tempest in a teapot!” I stutter in cognitive slippage And she is shy and softly spoken Gently laughs and perceptively broken The madness of the king is many a contemplativ ...

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20 days ago by Lisa Pampuch

Have the appendix from forthcoming book 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein handy. Presented on the Edge Foundation’s web site along with an excerpt of the novel’s first chapter, the appendix identifies the many flaws in 36 arguments that a superna ...

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23 days ago by Troythulu

Hey, guys. This installment in my series of top 20 errors of reasoning deals with the False Dichotomy, also referred to as the False Dilemma, the Fallacy of Negation, the Bifurcation Fallacy, and the Either-Or Fallacy. A variation of this, the False Choice, will also be briefly dealt with in this po ...

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25 days ago by Herbwoman

Unfortunately I have seen this logical fallacy used on both sides of the skeptic/believer debate. It occurs when ridicule or mockery is used in place of evidence in an “argument”. As usual I will substitute the X’s for something cute and fuzzy. The Appeal to Ridicule has the following format where X ...

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