Winging It

C.S. Lewis coined the term "Bulverism" back in 1941 in an essay published in The Socratic Digest . It was his method of explaining...

Perhaps you've heard of this logical fallacy. It's also called oversimplification or "black and white thinking" 1 . In the...

Are you familiar with syllogisms? These are the logical constructions used for reasoning. The most common syllogism idea is the argument tha...

MSNBC commentator Touré (That's a name?) commented on Roe v Wade 40 years after. He was in favor. He told of a time when he got a girlf...

This was a new phrase to me mentioned by Glenn in a comment to my Defined by Failure article. I had to look it up because I enjoy and am co...

Last week was a family gathering. The more family that gathers, the more interesting the conversations can get. It was very interesting when...

In the past I've made a couple of posts on the topic of logical fallacies. They had fun little Latin names like "Tu Quoque" a...

Another logical fallacy is called "Tu Quoque" (pronounced "two coke"). It is Latin for "You, too". And I am qu...

It is entirely possible, when one is defending the truth, to use a poor argument to do it. This doesn't mean that the truth being defend...

Over at Ales Rarus , we get a post offering questions from an atheist buddy. Clearly the questions are intended to dispute Christianity. The...

In the classic Miracle on 34th Street , Maureen O'Hara's Doris finally comes to believe in Santa Claus. Natalie Wood's Susan, he...