Showing posts with label fallacies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fallacies. Show all posts
Friday, April 10, 2026

Five philosophical razors for clearer thinking

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                        There is a Wikipedia article titled Philosophical razor which defines one as:   “a principle or rule of th...
Monday, July 21, 2025

There are haves and have nots; but there are just two halves, and no halve nots.

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                                If you do not proofread, you can get total nonsense. There is a post by Dr. John Livings...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Natural always being better is a fallacy

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                  There is an article by Amanda Ruggeri at BBC on February 12, 2025 titled Natural doesn’t always mean ...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Quack Quack: the threat of pseudoscience, a 2022 book by Dr. Joe Schwarcz

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                        Joe Schwarcz is a professor at McGill University in Montreal. He directs the McGill Office for S...
Saturday, December 5, 2020

What is missing here?

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                        Yesterday Randall Munroe published an xkxd web cartoon (shown above) titled Contiguous 41 States...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Doesn’t everybody make their hamburgers exactly the same way we do?

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Obviously the one and only right way to make a hamburger is to grill a quarter-pound (~110 gram) ground bee...
Saturday, December 1, 2018

Why the ‘I turned out fine’ argument just is a fallacy

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An excellent article by Justin Coulson in The New York Times on November 27, 2018 discussed The falla...
Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Literally blowing smoke

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Until last month I had assumed that the phrase “b...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

A colossal conspiracy called the Mandela Effect

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Some people have very curious beliefs. The so-called Mandela Effect is a belief originated by Fiona Broome . S...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Learning to Recognize Fallacies and Bad Arguments

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When you write a speech, you should avoid logical fallacies and other bad arguments. Wikipedia has a page with a lo...