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Critical Thinking Check #7: Check the Logic
Season 1, Episode 11
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11-Nov-2020
By now in the critical thinking process, you will have already caught many potential fallacies in a message, including Appeals to Authority, Equivocation and Either-Or Fallacies. But other faulty arguments, such as Circular Reasoning, Appeals to Probability, or Faulty Generalizations, may still lurk behind the facts. Catch them with a final check on the message’s reasoning.
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