I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

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A better way to think of it, as the philosopher Ronald Dworkin put it, is as a “gravitational pull” on judicial reasoning.

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The neurophysiological disorder is characterized by a severe aversion to sound—and the struggle to convince others of the severity of that aversion.

That’s the title of a paper that 404 Media reports was recently published by Alexander Lerchner, a Senior Staff Scientist at Google DeepMind. Regardless of grand pronouncements from folks, including ...

The fallacy of affirming the consequent is a fallacy in which the affirmation of A is derived from the affirmation of B in a conditional statement "If A, then B." This reasoning is a fallacy because, ...

In a conditional statement 'If A, then B,' the fallacy of concluding the negation of B from the negation of A is called the fallacy of denying the antecedent. This reasoning is a fallacy because, ...

Logical fallacies are flaws in reasoning. They are often called informal fallacies. It's becoming more common for people to call out these fallacies by name. You often hear accusations of people ...