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Logic Lessons

Learn about sound rational thinking

Fallacy types

recognize the common fallacies of logic.

Dicto Simpliciter."

"Dicto Simpliciter means an argument based on an unqualified generalization. For example: Exercise is good. Therefore everybody should exercise."
 Exercise is good is an unqualified generalization. For instance, if you have heart disease, exercise is bad, not good. Many people are ordered by their doctors not to exercise. You must qualify the generalization. You must say exercise is usually good, or exercise is good for most people. Otherwise you have committed a Dicto Simpliciter.

Love is a Fallacy

One of the best, and most fun, ways to learn about logical thinking is to read this story written in 1951 by Max Shulman

 

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Love is a Fallacy


Cool was I and logical. Keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute and astute-I was all of these. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist's scales, as penetrating as a scalpel. And - think of it! - I was only eighteen.

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