What is the Ad Hominem Fallacy? The ad hominem fallacy occurs when someone attacks the person making an argument rather than the argument itself. This fallacy diverts attention from the actual issue ...

Are you a print subscriber? Activate your account. By Erika Wheless - 1 hour 8 min ago By Ad Age and Creativity Staff - 1 hour 44 min ago 4 hours 9 min ago By Tim Nudd - 5 hours 9 min ago By Bradley ...

Logical people are typically less biased. It makes sense semantically, but I’m also referring to the research. Studies show that participants who score higher on measures of logical reasoning or who ...

Here at Snopes, we encounter our fair share of logical fallacies, or errors in reasoning, that tend to be more persuasive than they ought to be, and are based on poor or faulty logic. In previous ...

In any discussion of evolutionary psychology, or human sciences in general, it is very important to avoid two logical fallacies. They are called the naturalistic fallacy and the moralistic fallacy.

Logical fallacy is defined by Oxford English Dictionary as “a failure in reasoning which renders an argument invalid.” Contrary to the title, I’m not writing this because I want to give an English ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Using the framework of informal logical fallacies, this article looks at the link between prejudices and certain contemporary social debates ...