To persuade you, people often try to use logical fallacies (Credit: Javier Hirschfeld) When people are trying to persuade you, they sometimes reach for underhand tricks like the 'appeal to ignorance' ...

Political engagement once entailed making sound arguments for or against propositions aimed at the common goal of improving our society. Sometime in the last few years however, this objective has been ...

To advance a moral argument about the legality of controversial subjects such as abortion, there needs to be a reformulation of the way in which arguments are presented. When discussing highly ...

Using Aristotle's dialectic to define Aristotle's dialectic. Dialectic, unlike logic, is concerned with particular individuals with whom we are engaged with in argument. The argument proceeds by ...

This week's post is the first in a series that will provide you with a complete overview of LSAT content and the basic skills you will need to perform your best on it. This first installment will ...

Solutions are available by request for course instructors and the self-taught. These documents are intended for the spring 2024 version of PHI 201, Introductory Logic. However, they will be fine-tuned ...

The theory of grammar adopted here is that grammar is linked to the semantic notion of conceptual which includes proposition structure. A proposition is that part of a sentence less its modal ...

The theory of grammar adopted here is that grammar is based on a logical form based on proposition structure. A proposition is that part of a sentence less its modal modifiers--roughly, the node S. A ...