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Avoiding Pitfalls in Reasoning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 July 2023

Douglas Groothuis*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Denver Seminary, Littleton, USA
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*Corresponding author. Email: douggroothuis@gmail.com
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Abstract

I'd rather not be an idiot and neither would you. One useful tool in avoid idiocy and figuring out what's true is to be aware of logical fallacies. Some errors in thinking are so common that they have been named in infamy. This article is an anti-idiocy vaccine to immunize you to common fallacies such as poisoning the well, begging the question, false dichotomy, and others, in order to give you a better shot at avoiding fallacy and finding out what's true.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal Institute of Philosophy

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