Stop Holding Contradictory Beliefs: A Lesson from Russell’s Paradox
Have you ever come across ideas that shake the mind? Yes, some ideas break the mind before they…
Flawed Arguments, But The Right Conclusion: Understanding The Fallacy Fallacy
Just like I started my last article, we humans love certainty. Most of us love the feeling of…
The Limits of Your Knowledge Are Not the Limits of Truth: The Personal Incredulity Fallacy
We, human beings, have always struggled with the unknown. We naturally resist what feels too complex, too unfamiliar,…
The Illusion of Meaning: The Equivocation Fallacy
Words are powerful, and as a blogger and writer, I know this well, but they can also be…
Correlation is NOT Always Causation: Understanding Causal Fallacies
Somehow we all like to tell stories. We want the world to make sense, so our minds naturally…
Blame-Shifting Logic: The Deception of the Appeal to Hypocrisy Fallacy
Take a minute to remember an argument in the past or a debate where one person calls out…
Too Fast, Too Flawed: The Hasty Generalizations Fallacy
Yes and obviously, we live in a world that moves fast, too fast for truth to always catch…
Sliding into Speculation: The Danger of The Slippery Slope Fallacy
You know, in logic, few fallacies are as emotionally persuasive and as subtly deceptive as the slippery slope…
Trust, But Verify: The Subtle Trap of The Appeal to Authority Fallacy
It is very very much human nature to trust people who seem to know more than we do.…
The Absence of Evidence is Not The Evidence of Absence: The Ignorance Fallacy
For many people there is a certain comfort in claiming, “Well, you can not prove me wrong.” It…