I love logic. It asserts itself in wonderful ways in our lives and enriches the understanding of, well reality.
Knowing that, allow me to explain that logic isn't just 'being clever' or what have you. Logic has rules, rules needed so you can overcome some of the... not shortcomings, but small biases and mental shortcuts that the human brain is prone to.
Tonight we'll take a look at logical fallacies. There are two kinds, ones simply being wrong, having incorrect information, that sort of thing, and aren't touched on very frequently for obvious reasons. The other kind, formal fallacies (so named because the problem lies in the form of the argument regardless of its outcome) are a field of study unto themselves, and it's those we'll focus on.
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