But in other cases, there’s a difference between what a term means in casual conversation and what it means as a logical fallacy. Here are five fascinating examples, from bandwagon to wishful thinking ...

Among writers in this field, Douglas Walton is one of the most prolific: Informal Logic is his sixth book in this area since 1982 ... Walton takes great care not to condemn all ad hominem arguments as ...

When considering your argument or the arguments of others, writers and readers need to be aware of logical fallacies. Logical fallacies are found in many places—ads, politics, movies. Logical ...

Trump might have started lobbing logical fallacies at business rivals in closed ... Trump even admitted to it in his 1987 book “The Art of the Deal,” rationalizing it as “an innocent form ...

But if you look closely, these are logical fallacies or errors in reasoning. There’s false dilemma or false dichotomy, for instance. Critics claim the arrest of the ICC undermines the country ...