When The Truth No Longer Has Credibility Coming From You Because You Have Lied Too Often
There is a painful moment in life that no one warns you about: The moment your truth becomes…
Honesty is Still the Best Policy: Why Truth Wins in The Long Run
Honesty has become one of those phrases we repeat without thinking, like a cliche we outgrew. But the…
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 Neutrality: The Middle Ground Fallacy
Just like in my previous article, the world is filled with debates, and political, moral, scientific, relational people…
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…
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…
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…