Logical fallacies is a personal pet peeve of mine, especially when people seem to buy into arguments containing them. Not that I'm an expert either, but sometimes they are just so glaringly obvious, that it's highly frustrating to see other people not seeming to see through them.
When I studied philosophy in high school, a part of the course was argumentation analysis, and it was very interesting. I remember we got about nine or so categories of different types of faulty arguments, but I only remember "majority arguments" and "authority" arguments among the categories. I wish I had kept the papers about it, no doubt would they have come in handy when debating over the Internet. ;-) Maybe I'll just borrow the book from the library, one of these days...
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Date: 2005-09-06 08:08 pm (UTC)When I studied philosophy in high school, a part of the course was argumentation analysis, and it was very interesting. I remember we got about nine or so categories of different types of faulty arguments, but I only remember "majority arguments" and "authority" arguments among the categories. I wish I had kept the papers about it, no doubt would they have come in handy when debating over the Internet. ;-) Maybe I'll just borrow the book from the library, one of these days...