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…
Beyond Either/Or: Escaping the Trap of the False Dilemma (False Dichotomy)
If you watch the news a lot you will notice that we live in a world that loves…
Pursuing Truth In A Balanced Way By Kenneth E. Hagin
A friend of mine, Bob Buess, published a book in 1975 entitled: The Pendulum Swings. A Baptist minister…
Attack The Argument, Not The Person: Understanding The Ad Hominem Fallacy
In any and many discussions whether it is online, offline, in politics, or even within our closest relationships,…
The Strawman Fallacy: How We Misrepresent Others (and Let Others Misrepresent Us)
Obviously I am sure we can agree that we live in an age of endless arguments, both online…
Truth Has Rules: The Basic Laws of Logic and Objective Thinking
From the beginning of time everyone has always had an opinion about something or someone, and only a…