For regulars at Ars Technica, the forums are as much a part of the site's identity as the articles. And where there are forums, there are flame wars. The BattleFront is infamous for its contentious ...

Yuri Arcurs peopleimages.com / Getty Images/iStockphoto When I was in college, I remember naively signing up for a course called “Introduction to Logic.” It turned out to be one of the greatest ...

The aims, scope and method of Aristotle's dialectic. Dialectic is a process of discovery and pedagogy that takes place between two individuals using logical argument, according to Aristotle. To an ...

For the majority the most convincing speaker in a debate is the loudest, most wildly gesticulating person. Validity of his argument be damned. Welcome to populist politics in Pakistan and around the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Logic is formal in the sense that all arguments of the same form as logically valid arguments are also logically valid and hence ...

This course is compulsory on the BSc in Philosophy and Economics, BSc in Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and BSc in Politics and Philosophy. This ...

We began this course by defining an ARGUMENT as a connected series of claims intended to ESTABLISH the TRUTH of one major claim, the conclusion. We also acknowledged that SOME CLAIMS ARE TRUE (or ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover behavioral economics, decision-making, finance and philosophy. Alternative facts and sloppy thinking. Either one can ...