As a marketer, I can tell you that logical fallacies are used in advertising all the time. You find them in a variety of messages that bombard you daily. As a matter of fact, you’re probably so used ...

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

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Reach in advertising refers to the total number of people exposed to a particular piece of content. It determines the potential size of an audience that may have seen or heard a specific message or ...

The article on confabulation repeats a logical fallacy (7 October, p 32). “The idea that we have conscious free will may be an illusion,” writes Helen Phillips, because a 1985 experiment “suggested ...

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It's a well-known fact by now that most consumer AI are incomprehensible hallucination machines that are also racist. They're not much good in an argument given these tendencies, of course, but that ...