Here at Snopes, we encounter our fair share of logical fallacies, or errors in reasoning, that tend to be more persuasive than they ought to be, and are based on poor or faulty logic. In previous ...

To persuade you, people often try to use logical fallacies (Credit: Javier Hirschfeld) When people are trying to persuade you, they sometimes reach for underhand tricks like the 'appeal to ...

Here at Snopes, we encounter our fair share of logical fallacies, or errors in reasoning that tend to be more persuasive than they really are, and are based on poor or faulty logic. Indeed ...

Jonah Goldberg commits the basic logical fallacy of “two wrongs make a right.” President Bush’s may not be “the most radical presidency we have ever had,” and Bush may be matched in his ...

Dr. Mo Abolkheir, a philosopher specializing in inventions and patents, has identified a logical fallacy—a flawed argument that may appear valid but is based on faulty reasoning—within the law.

In logic class we encounter the "no true Scotsman" fallacy: "No Scotsman would drink vodka" "McGregor [a Scotsman] drinks vodka." "Well, no true Scotsman would drink vodka." The illicit rhetorical ...

The article on confabulation repeats a logical fallacy (7 October, p 32). “The idea that we have conscious free will may be an illusion,” writes Helen Phillips, because a 1985 experiment ...