Don’t Let Fallacies Torpedo Your Thinking

The following is taken from Ch. 6 of my book, Write like they’re your last words.

A fallacy is defined as a mistaken belief or a failure in reasoning.  Though most people make an effort to avoid mistakes, no one is infallible, not even those who act like they are.

You can download a chart of common fallacies here.  The online chart is hyperlinked to each of the fallacies.

I break fallacies into two major groups:

A. First, we have traditional fallacies you might remember from Philosophy 101.  In ...