To the Times: Your editorial of Aug. 17 asks “Mosque can be built – but should it be?” The better question might be, “Editorialists are free to set up logical fallacies – but should they?” You state: ...

Reader Jon Hanson stated Tuesday in his letter to the editor that he supports the war in Iraq, because “if we just sit on our hands, I doubt the terrorists will go away.” Were invading Iraq and ...

Has anyone noticed that the Democrats, and Obama in particular, are the masters of using the either or fallacy, also known as the false dilemma? The either or fallacy is an argumentation technique ...

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' ...

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