by Laurie Bluedorn | Jan 7, 2010 | Logic
Myers Family reviews the new edition of The Fallacy Detective
by Laurie Bluedorn | Aug 12, 2009 | Logic
Last night, Sir Gibbsley’s prized possession, his Tribal Tooth Mask, disappeared. Can you help him find it? Sir Gibbsley used to hunt elephants in Africa till a rogue elephant took out his right leg. Now he loves to terrify his nephew Horatio with fearsome tales...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Apr 8, 2009 | Logic
by Andrew C. Thomas, Opinion Editor for The Tech, the M.I.T. student newspaper I’m always delighted when two sides that seem mutually opposed come together in harmonious agreement. I’m even more delighted when I’ve taken one of those sides. In this...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Feb 15, 2009 | Logic
I am new to visiting your site and I read with great interest your article on the Sabbath in the correspondence section for your web site. At the end of the article you invited comments detecting flaws in your logic. My question to you is this: How sure are you that...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Dec 13, 2008 | Logic
Pepsi has a billboard up in my state reading, “Hey Washington, more people prefer the taste of Pepsi!” Clearly, the fallacy here is “ad POPulum.” Did you catch the other ‘fallacy’? The sentence… isn’t. It does not...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Jun 28, 2008 | Logic
Fallacy Detectives, We’ve created a new forum! The Fallacy Forum We hope this forum will be as fun as our old forum, but focus on logical fallacies and errors in reasoning. You can stay up-to-date with what we’re doing by subscribing to our email list. The...
