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Logical Fallacies and How to Spot Them
Logical Fallacies and How to Spot Them In the Evolution vs. Creationism debate, it is important to be able to spot all the logical fallacies that Creationists tend to throw around. This essay covers many bare essentials of logical thinking, as well as ways to critically evaluate an argument.God is an Epic Troll: The Best of the Advice God Meme
more The Judeo-Christian God is an epic troll. If you grew up Catholic, Protestant or at all Christian, then most of these iterations of this meme will hit home hard. These are all questions we've asked ourselves, our pastors and our parents that can be answered with the fact that the Judeo-Christian God, as a character, is a mean, troll-like, hypocritical butt-face.
The Eight Best Rage Comics Ever
We’ve all been there: surfing the internet, trolling for some cheap LULz, and there we find ourselves: face to face with he-lair-i-ous rage comics. So, for your viewing pleasure, I compiled the 8 best rage comics ever:Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), was a brilliant German philosopher. These 38 Stratagems are excerpts from "The Art of Controversy", first translated into English and published in 1896. Carry your opponent's proposition beyond its natural limits; exaggerate it. The more general your opponent's statement becomes, the more objections you can find against it. The more restricted and narrow his or her propositions remain, the easier they are to defend by him or her.
SCHOPENHAUER'S 38 STRATAGEMS, OR 38 WAYS TO WIN AN ARGUMENT
Firstly, please remember that the word "paradox", like many others, has a number of different meanings. For example, the Chambers Dictionary 2006 has: " paradox : something which is contrary to received conventional opinion; something which is apparently absurd but is or may be really true; a self-contradictory statement" - three quite different meanings. Please bear this in mind before proclaiming, "This is not a real paradox because..." Secondly, it's an anthology, a selection from other people's writings - and in this case the "other people" include some renowned thinkers on paradoxes.
Some paradoxes - an anthology
Logic
Logic (λόγος in Greek, logos , "thought") is the most fundamental of all the Science s and a major branch of Philosophy . Logic is the primary " proof " and method of Mathematics and all Language , leading to Arithmetic Geometry , Set Theory , and Computation , as well as Grammar , Linguistics , Argumentation , and Philosophy of Language . Logic is not only the study of systems of reasoning - guides for how we, and intelligent systems in general, make valid inferences , and of how Statement s and Number s are put together - it is that reasoning. The earliest dinstinct studies of Logic in relation to Philosophy and Mathematics can be found in virtually all Ancient Civilization, from the Egyptians and Greeks, to the Indian and Chinese.
Logic: Logic is a branch of Philosophy, dedicated to the study of reasoning . The word ;Logic ‘ derives from Greek logike , means “possessed of reason, intellectual, dialectical, argumentative”, from logos equivalent to “word, thought, idea, argument, account, reason, or principle”. Logic is the study of the methods and principles used to distinguish correct reasoning from incorrect reasoning. The aim of the logic is to provide methods, techniques and devices which help in differentiating right reasoning from wrong reasoning and good reasoning from bad.
A Class-Room Introduction to Logic
