Thursday, February 14, 2008

Logical Fallacies

This reading was interesting to me. I found it most interesting to seewhy it is that we study the wrong way to argue instead of the correctway. If we knew we were right 100% of the time, there is always goingto be that small part that is wrong in something that we say. If weunderstand what it is exactly that is wrong, then we can understand whyother people are arguing for it. And I liked the comparison to a roadmap. You have a destination, thats your goal you want to argue and youhave your starting point, your starting argument. With those, its hardto not get side tracked or distracted. And you can easily go acompletely different and opposite direction. It was interesting to readall the different types of Fallacies and see which ones that I canrelate to.

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