Today, as the finale to the entire course, we learn how to argue about the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and alien abductions (among other things). I refer, of course, to fallacies of presumption, which are a kind of logical cheating.
Today, as the finale to the entire course, we learn how to argue about the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and alien abductions (among other things). I refer, of course, to fallacies of presumption, which are a kind of logical cheating.
Mark Grannis teaches logic and history at The Heights School in Potomac, Maryland. He is the author of The Reasonable Person: Traditional Logic for Modern Life and its Teacher Supplement.
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