In high school, senior Eng­lish intro­duced me to the cod­i­fied world of fal­la­cious rea­son­ing. Through­out col­lege I learned a bit more about it, but it seems the only peo­ple who real­ly under­stand log­i­cal fal­lac­i­es thor­ough­ly are philosophes and rhetori­cists. They’ve always been con­sid­ered bad things, and in strict terms of argu­ment-in-order-to-win, I sup­pose they are. But I think they can do some good too.
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