Philosophiraga: Episode Eleven – Logical Fallacies

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”

– Margaret Mead

What’s that on the horizon?

Is it a black raven? Is it a white shoe? Is it a married bachelor? Is it an out-of-control train about to hit either one person or five people?

No – it’s an episode of a podcast!

So… thank goodness for that, I should think.

Anyway, hello. Philosophiraga time: in this episode, we’re giving a little bit of love to the wonderful and strange field of logic. Since it really is a very wonderful and very strange field, I wish I could do an entire module on it, but… to be honest, I don’t understand it well enough! Instead, here’s a brief primer on logical fallacies; this episode is a fun, quick romp through a few introductory ways to tell when an argument might not be totally logical and airtight.

Naturally, because it’s Philosophiraga, there are amusing video game examples for each of them!

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Though he’s been known by many names across the vast and peculiar landscape of the Internet, every iteration of The Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage has shared an urge to look far too closely at tiny details and extrapolate huge, important-seeming conclusions. He now hosts Philosophiraga, the video games and philosophy podcast, for The Well-Red Mage, and can be found rambling about it and his other creative endeavours on Twitter. Plus he wrote a novel, and if you bought it and then said you liked it then he might actually become the happiest human alive.

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