If you send your children to a classical school, they are likely to learn about the various types of rhetorical fallacy. And this is far more likely to help them become informed citizens than any ...

Ahh, June 4. Time of the year again to ignore facts, twist history, make spurious claims, and generally offer plenty of wrong-headed arguments. Since this is the 20th anniversary of the Massacre, ...

June 7, 2016 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Arguments aren’t won with information; they’re resolved with rhetoric, the art of persuasion. In Thank You For ...

Elections scheduled on 8th February matter a lot for Pakistan. The collective wisdom of the nation will be tested on the small ballot paper. Accurate use of votes can put the country back on track to ...

Technically, lame forms of argument are called informal rhetorical fallacies and often have fancy Latin names (e.g. post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy). That’s too bad, because they sure don’t belong ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/philrhet.54.4.0397 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/philrhet.54.4.0397 Copy URL ABSTRACT Fallacies are traditionally defined as ...

Abortion opponents peddle various myths about the procedure to discredit it and demonize the people who provide or support it. Abortion is health care. The earlier it is available, the easier it is ...