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Author Topic:   Should students receive education on logical fallacies?
Michamus
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Message 24 of 24 (509148)
05-19-2009 2:35 AM
Reply to: Message 18 by Taq
05-12-2009 5:12 PM


Taq writes:
A philosophy course would definitely work, but very rarely do high schools have such classes.
Actually Taq, My partner medic here has his undergrad in Philosophy, and he didn't even know what logical fallacies were. I didn't realize it until he made a statement, and I called it out as being a straw-man, to which he asked "What's a straw-man fallacy?"
I would agree that logical fallacies should be taught to all high-school students so as to augment their real world skills.

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