Did you know you can spot certain fallacies by drawing pictures? Overlapping circles, called Venn Diagrams, illustrate statements about categories (like “All cats are mammals” or “Some cats are tigers), which form the basis of categorical arguments. Here’s how to spot flawed categorical arguments by drawing.
“A loving God would not create a world with death, suffering and disaster.” This is a top objection to Christianity, which even evolutionary textbooks raise, asking why a competent Creator would design a process so cruel as natural selection. Let’s respond to this important question using Check #...
Truth tables are tools to help you spot invalid arguments without having to know the name of a single formal fallacy, and without having to know if the statements in an argument are true! Here’s a crash introduction to how to create and interpret a truth table.
Truth tables are tools to help you spot invalid arguments without having to know the name of a single formal fallacy, and without having to know if the statements in an argument are true! Let’s walk through an example of drawing a truth table for a more complicated argument.
