An introduction to the structure of deductive arguments, how to evaluate them, and why a bad argument doesn’t necessarily ...

My 5-year-old nephew once confidently told me that all dinosaurs were green because his three dinosaur toys were green. So I showed him a nature documentary, Walking with Dinosaurs, and suddenly, ...

Argument: A kind of rationale in which the reason(s) are intended to be taken as evidence for believing the conclusion.. Branch: One of multiple chains in a rationale that lead to the same conclusion.

I don’t know any academic field whose writing regularly indulges in sentence structure as complex as in analytic philosophy. I don’t know any academic field whose writing regularly indulges in ...