Monday, December 20, 2004

Guide to the Logical Fallacies

In a darkening world drowning in floods of coercion and crass manipulation, it may be quaintly academic to speak of logical fallacies, yet Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies is an old site worth revisiting, if only to remind ourselves that human minds once attempted to think with consistency and accuracy. In a future composition class, I'd like to craft an assignment wherein the students must apply one of the fallacies to the rhetoric of advertising, PR, politics, journalism, or religion, that they might begin to understand not just that these discourses can lie and mislead, but how.

1 Comments:

At 20 December, 2004 12:57, Blogger Saint Nate said...

WIsh I found this sooner ... I was just the victim of an ad hominem attack from an alternative medicine fan.

 

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