What is the goal of life? One of the main questions that philosophy tries to answer is, How should we live? Aristotle narrows this question down to, What is the goal of life? Another way to put this is, what is the end to everything that we do in life?…
In general, this fallacy redirects a debate from the real argument to astraw man to gain an advantage. We call this redirection, “putting up a straw man.” This straw man is a caricature or substitution of a position. There are various forms of the straw man fallacy. We’re going…
What’s a map or a model? A map or model describes a territory in a useful way and with a specific purpose. For example, the territory a subway map describes is the subway stops along the subway route. It’s useful in that it describes the subway path in…
> If you only remember one kind of bias to watch out for, make it this. – Tom Chatfield What is confirmation bias? We live our lives using a set of beliefs. Regardless of how we gain these beliefs, through philosophical inquiry or by an opinion passed on from a friend, our…
Description: This fallacy often creeps into ideological debates about topics like politics or religion. People use this fallacy to avoid debating the truth or falsity of new evidence. Below are examples that will make this clearer, but here’s a description of how the fallacy unfolds. First, an individual claims…
This is a summary of a YouTube presentation [https://youtu.be/_TOqKR9PXUA] given by Vanessa Otero, creator of the Media Bias Chart [https://www.adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/?v=402f03a963ba] (MBC), and founder of Ad Fontes Media, inc. [https://www.adfontesmedia.com/?v=402f03a963ba] (AFM). The title of this presentation is,…