Perhaps you keep up with the news or discuss issues with people who have different opinions than you? If so, good for you, but at the same time, it helps to be wary of bad arguments and language traps. How can you see these traps and sidestep them like the distractions they are?
This article highlights some of the most common reasoning flaws you’re likely to encounter, and how to get around them.
Once you know about logical fallacies, you’ll see them everywhere. Why does this matter? Because the more practised you become at spotting them, the better you can be at identifying flaws in people’s thinking, and refocusing dialogue back to an argument’s merit. You’ll also get better at thinking critically yourself.
Because forewarned is forearmed!
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