From the course: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
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Avoiding logical fallacies
From the course: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Avoiding logical fallacies
- When my son was three or four, we took a flight over to Sweden. And three times in a row, the captain turned on the seat belt light, said that we were coming up on some turbulence. And then, sure enough, we hit some turbulence. After the third time this happened, my son looked at me and asked, "Why do they turn that light on if it's going to cause the plane to shake?" Now, I know this sounds totally silly to us, but misuses of logic trick each and every one of us occasionally. I want to help you see a few common logical fallacies so you can avoid using them yourself and you can recognize them when others try to use them on you. One of the most common is the ad hominem attack. This is an attack on an opponent's character rather than an answer to the contentions made. We see this all the time in politics. Candidates on a debate stage will call each other crooked or a con man or just plain dumb. None of these phrases…
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