Facts don't always support conclusions in the way an argument's author thinks they do. Sometimes, conditional statements get improperly reversed, or causes and effects get mixed up. Fallacies show ...

When considering your argument or the arguments of others, writers and readers need to be aware of logical fallacies. Logical fallacies are found in many places—ads, politics, movies. Logical ...

And we’re off. Primaries aside, it’s a two-horse presidential race, but the down-ballot races are equally if not more ...

The worst ones are implicated in the fallacies discussed below ... (In other words, it is not a Red Herring to cite temporal succession as part of an argument for a causal conclusion.) We generally ...

I would first like to apologize for inappropriately interrupting Howard Lien's response to a question I asked him during the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate/TCU Judiciary debate last week. However, ...

I am vehemently opposed to this debate because it gives a false impression ... Anything else is a fallacy.