Happy 300th post! It has been fun, and also rocky. The past is filled with a mixed bag of neat ideas and terrible ones, ones that never went anywhere, and the intermittent updates. It has podcasts, and hexups, and comic… Continue Reading
Oh yes, we’re doing logic again. A little bit, anyway. It’s been too long since I wrote about philosophy, and I’m shaking the dust off my bones. My brain was growing moss. I want to talk about more fallacies, because… Continue Reading
A Lesson in Logic This is a common fallacy, and I’ve been waiting for a chance to talk about it. The basic idea of the Straw Man, (Called the Aunt Sally in the UK), is reconstructing another person’s argument in… Continue Reading
A Lesson in Logic I don’t have a specific order I want to look at the fallacies in, at least not yet. I just finished my Master’s degree, so it’ll be a week before my life takes on any semblance… Continue Reading
A Lesson in Logic Before getting into fallacies, we need to have a talk about the principle of charity. This has nothing to do with giving other people money for good reasons, though there’s a principle of charity for that… Continue Reading