Yuri Arcurs peopleimages.com / Getty Images/iStockphoto When I was in college, I remember naively signing up for a course called “Introduction to Logic.” It turned out to be one of the greatest ...

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 ...

a guide to spotting flawed arguments on the internet. And today we're going to talk about the burden of proof. This is the question of who needs to provide evidence for an argument, and it comes up a ...

Originally published on Sept. 25, 2018. In a world of divisive politics, rhetoric and debate, author Eugenia Cheng has the secret to winning an argument: mathematical logic. Cheng, a mathematician and ...

This week the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology, and medicine awarded its top scientists with its highest honor, the Nobel Prize. And this year, the annual celebration of scientific greatness ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THANKS, Greg Craven (Comment & Debate, 4/11), for providing an academic example of an ad hominem argument - one which attacks the person ...

WITH regard to the logical validity of the Navitus decision, I found John Wait’s attempt at a definition of “logical” in his letter Sept 29 anything but logical. He ended up defining reasoning as ...