Archive for September, 2009

Numerical Qualifiers #3:The Round Trip Fallacy

Most baseball caps are worn on our head. Therefore, most of what is on our head at any given time are baseball caps.

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Numerical Qualifiers #2: Be Careful, President Carter

Even Presidents and top journalists are sloppy with numerical qualifiers to the detriment of their arguments.

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Numerical qualifiers #1

Innumeracy and Numerical Qualifiers

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Bertrand Russell:A Severe Hurdle to Critical Thinking

The Ontological Challenge to Critical Thinking

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On Being Certain

A recommendation for reading Robert Burton’s “On Being Certain.”

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