I don’t mean to pick on Dargan Pete again, but his Jan. 15 column is a classic example of the “straw man” logical fallacy. For those readers who didn’t have a secondary school English class unit on ...

Rich Lowry, in his article (March 26) denouncing Bernie Sanders’ proposal to establish a four-day workweek, sums up his point at the end by saying, “Sanders’ idea is a frank expression of economic ...

What is the Ad Hominem Fallacy? The ad hominem fallacy occurs when someone attacks the person making an argument rather than the argument itself. This fallacy diverts attention from the actual issue ...

It has been suggested that approximately five exabytes (i.e. about 5,000,000,000 pickup truck beds full of information typed on paper) of data are created each day. What is tougher to decipher is how ...

I was humored by Trudy Knowles’ use of the “strawman” fallacy to try to refute my wife’s argument against mask mandates (Letters to the Editor, The Westfield News, Dec. 24, page 4). I will assume Ms.

By using the faculty of reasoning, man tries and understand the phenomena around him. The serendipitous understanding is, however, wholly subjective to the extent that whenever his subjective findings ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/philrhet.54.4.0397 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/philrhet.54.4.0397 Copy URL ABSTRACT Fallacies are traditionally defined as ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/philrhet.54.2.0109 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/philrhet.54.2.0109 Copy URL ABSTRACT This paper contributes to the debate about ...