Category: Logic
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The Logical Necessity of the Oxford Comma
by Jason Stotts I detest when people don’t use the “Oxford Comma,” which, sadly, is no longer used even by Oxford. For those who don’t know, it’s the last comma in a set before the “and.” Let’s say you want to talk about three separate things, you would write it thus: A, B, and C.…
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Informal Fallacies
by Jason Stotts One of the best ways to improve the clarity of your thinking and arguing is to learn the informal fallacies. A fallacy is an error of reasoning whereby your conclusion does not follow from your premises. Importantly, it is not that the content of the premise is false (that is its own…