This is a False Cause fallacy because it implies that removing the stick removes the problem without addressing the behavior ...

As the country prepares for the second term of President Uhuru Kenyatta, four major fallacies have characterised public discourse, contributing to the hardline positions taken by the two leading ...

If you send your children to a classical school, they are likely to learn about the various types of rhetorical fallacy. And this is far more likely to help them become informed citizens than any ...

I don’t mean to pick on Dargan Pete again, but his Jan. 15 column is a classic example of the “straw man” logical fallacy. For those readers who didn’t have a secondary school English class unit on ...

When considering your argument or the arguments of others, writers and readers need to be aware of logical fallacies. Logical fallacies are found in many places—ads, politics, movies. Logical ...

Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin called out media outlets like her own paper for trying to appeal to "MAGA readers" after the election. The opinion columnist joined anti-Trump critic George ...

There’s been a lot of news and discussion about the psychology of social media (Instagram in particular) after the Congressional testimony from a former Facebook employee as well as the release of ...