Can you provide the name and/or good examples of this logical fallacy? [more inside]
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium on Feb 4, 2006 - 15 answers

I have, per my Jesuit education, received too many logic courses. Many times I recognize people making the simplest of logical fallacies. Most often the slippery slope (if gays marry, then people will want to marry animals next) or the straw-man argument. I guess my question is, how valid is the medieval logic in our world today? I notice logical fallacies all over the op-ed and in everyday conversation to justify causes. I was beat over the head with the importance of using correct logic, but does it still hold validity? I've never seen the TV debates ever call each other out using logic. I'm not trying to ask a far out philosophical question, so more inside. [more inside]
posted by geoff. on Nov 24, 2004 - 46 answers