It's so frustrating when our friends just don't get it. Last week, I posted this cartoon on Facebook and on the bulletin board by the elevator, so you may have seen it already. But I want to "use" this cartoon to segue into a bit of philosophy because Snoopy is also my favorite philosopher. Bear with me here, as you scan these four logical fallacies.
When I ran across these four logical fallacies on Facebook (red herring fallacy. ad hominem fallacy, anecdotal evidence fallacy, and straw man fallacy), I felt like I was back in my college logic class. My textbook was by Copi, and I still think his is the best. Following my train of thought, I looked up Copi and found a Wikipedia article about him. Hmm, I see that his text is now in its 14th edition, so I must not be alone in thinking it was excellent.
Linus and Snoopy |
"Copi studied under Bertrand Russell while at the University of Chicago."Ha! I didn't know that. While studying for my first degree, maybe even the same year I took logic, I imagined Bertrand Russell in a homework paper/story I wrote. Bertrand Russell called something in that story "claptrap," and I had Linus retort, "Well, you're in this claptrap with us."
Word of the Day
se·gue / ˈseɡwā,ˈsā- / verb / past tense: segued / past participle: segued = move or shift from one role, state, or condition to another. Example: I used the Snoopy cartoon to segue into a bit of philosophy.Bookish Puzzle #3
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