A disagreement in rural California escalated in a way few people would expect after deputies say a man climbed into a piece ...

"It's only natural to submit the report by the deadline, isn't it?" A manager said this to a subordinate who was late with a submission. The content of what they said was not wrong. Work has deadlines ...

There is a term called 'seiron' (logical argument/sound argument). I used to use it to mean something like 'an opinion that anyone would agree is correct.' An argument that is reasonable and ...

Paul Mauro: Crockett’s weapon argument lacks ‘basic algebraic logic’ ‘The Five’ co-hosts discuss Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s, D-Texas, comments on the murder weapon in the Karmelo Anthony case.

Columnist Cal Thomas wishes that Americans wouldn’t complain so much about high gas prices (“Hey, America: Stop complaining,” May 27 LNP | LancasterOnline). I wish syndicated columnists would not have ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions and ...

Andrew Ludwig's January 20 Another Voice on polarized opinions relies on ideas from mathematical logic, but a few logical steps are mixed up.

If you ask Yann LeCun, Silicon Valley has a groupthink problem. Since leaving Meta in November, the researcher and AI luminary has taken aim at the orthodox view that large language models (LLMs) will ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions and ...

Formal logic helps us build and evaluate rational arguments, which helps us to test claims, explain our reasoning, and keep discussions clear. The first step in learning formal logic is learning about ...

The biggest lie those who create and spread misinformation perpetrate is that they want you to think for yourself. They warn their target audience not to be "sheep" and not to let themselves be told ...

Arguing is hard enough in and of itself, but doing it with an emotionally immature person makes it all the more difficult. People who are emotionally immature struggle to communicate effectively. As a ...