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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.
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
Logic
Logic ( logic , wiki , forked , Proteus ) 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.
