Fallacies Illustrated

by jgnat 11 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  jgnat

  Found today:

  http://twentytwowords.com/2013/09/17/silly-illustrations-of-logical-fallacies-12-pictures/

  A long-time favorite:

  http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rhetological-fallacies/

  ...and to turn rationalism on its' head,

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqDzKdVk8ao
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  Miss.Fit

  Thanks.I found the sight helpful. I am trying to practice spotting and identifying them to improve my critical thinking.
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  Witness My Fury

  Thanks.
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  jgnat

  Me, too. Even though I enjoy debating, I have not studied the various fallacies seriously or completely. I just know when one is being used. Then I look it up to see why it is wrong.
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  DesirousOfChange

  I'm sure the 2nd list is posted on the walls of the Writing Dept cubicles.

  Doc
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  adamah

  Thanks for the video on the rationalist delusion, as Haidt's studies confirm that ALL humans are prone to cognitive biases, and all are vulnerable to uncritically accepting those very ideas we'd LIKE to be true, and are pre-primed to believe.

  Unless we question the very ideas we'd want to be true (by not ignoring those very alarms that are sounding, "It sounds too good to be true!"), people are only going to be victim to others. The Bible offers that lesson in the VERY FIRST account, with Eve falling prey to the ear-tickling of the talking serpent, telling her what she wanted to hear as the Bible says she coveted the fruit, and desired what it offered).

  It's also important to remember that ALL authors are selling books, and if they want to remain successful authors will present what their audience is going to actually pay good $$$ in order to hear.... It's why authors who want to speak truths have to wait until the very end, just before death or retirement to tell their readers what they REALLY think ('swan-song' works, eg Sigmund Freud's "Moses, the Egyptian" was his last book since it was so jarring to his audience).

  I always recommend Kahane's and Kavendish's book on logic and contempory rhetoric, since instead on focusing on the egg-headed approach to classical logic, theirs uses a common-sense practical approach to analyzing the fallacies encountered in daily life (eg used by the WTBTS in their mags, or politicians, etc):

  http://books.google.com/books/about/Logic_and_Contemporary_Rhetoric_The_Use.html?id=_IIVhDlcCy4C

  A free preview is available above, and since the book is used as a college textbook, people should be able to find an older edition on eBay or abesbooks, brick-and-mortal local used book stores, etc on the cheap.
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  jgnat

  I think the only reasoning buzzword posted over WT writer's desks is "evidently".

  I see Logic and Contemporary.... is also available second-hand, $4.

  http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=logic+and+contemporary
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  jgnat

  More food for thought,

  http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_h_cohen_for_argument_s_sake.html
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  paranoia agent

  Great video
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  breakfast of champions

  Will check this out. .. Thanks!