However, the human mind is the irrational elephant in the room, causing many thinkers to misidentify and abuse logical fallacies over the course of a debate. Steven Novella, president of the New ...

Bestselling author Steve Richheimer chatted with Digital Journal’s Markos Papadatos about his book “The Fallacy of Materialism: How Consciousness Creates the Material Universe and Why it Matters.” ...

Other cities are cheaper than San Francisco and have better infrastructure and more talented people who aren't already in good jobs. So why do the tech companies who like to think of themselves as ...

Schools and colleges no longer teach formal logic, as evidenced by the huge number of people who espouse conspiracy theories (all of which fall apart when subjected to formal logic). So, unless you ...

LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES—Lionel Wiggam— Viking ($1.75). Of all the fallacies which man hugs to his bosom, the one characterized by Ruskin as “the pathetic fallacy” is the most common to romantic poets.

It is frequently asserted by those associated with anti-psychiatry that "mental illness" is nothing more than a metaphor, a figure of speech, used to describe socially deviant persons. Since there ...