CT Scan: Critical Thinking Scan
Catch Countless Fallacies with 1 Critical Thinking Hack
Season 2, Episode 1
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11-Nov-2020
Arguments that persuade by propaganda often use fallacies of irrelevant premises. There’s a long list of these fallacies, but one critical thinking hack can help you catch any of them. Just ask: “Is this message true or false because…” Because many people believe it? Because someone famous said so? This tool lets you respond to countless fallacies without needing to know their Latin names.
Up Next in S2: Fallacies
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Don’t Creationists Use Fallacies?
Textbooks may accuse biblical creationists of using logical fallacies to defend their beliefs. It’s possible to use bad logic to argue for something true, so calling a message false because someone uses fallacies to defend it…is a fallacy. Still, bad logic lowers apparent credibility. To learn ho...
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Appeals to Ignorance and Incredulity
Claiming that something must be true because there’s no evidence to say otherwise is a logical fallacy called Appeal to Ignorance. Another version of this fallacy is the Argument from Incredulity, which suggests something must be false because it’s hard to imagine being true. Here’s how to recogn...
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The Elephant, the Blind Men, and the ...
Analogies can make arguments sound persuasive, but they can’t prove anything is true. Tips for answering analogies that argue against the Bible include finding an important difference between the things being compared and using big-picture questions to make the analogy argue for a biblical worldv...
