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Nathaniel Bluedorn

Toby asks…..
We have used some of your logic texts but have encountered an informal argument we thought may be a fallacy not covered in the books. We name it after the kid who uses it.
A certain camper wore the same t-shirt all week. When my Dear Husband, his counselor, told him on Thursday to change [...]

I’d like to thank your young men for The Fallacy Detective. I’ve been using it this year with my two boys (ages 10 and 14). It has really struck a chord with my younger son, who is now asking me to find a debating team for him. My other son, who is [...]

My grandson seems to have a problem making decisions . . . even what to eat for dinner. When shopping, he cannot decide if he should buy an item and asks for my opinion, even for what I think he should buy. I thought if he could learn logic, it would give him the mental [...]

Harvey,
Hedge’s Elements of Logic has a section on the “rules of controversy” that has served as the standard for hundreds of debates throughout the history of America. They served as the undisputed standard for many religious and political debates. The fact that logic has disappeared from the syllabus for our high schools is most telling [...]

People who can’t or don’t read and who spend their free time watching TV and movies, playing video and computer games, and otherwise spend their lives seeking entertainment will not be able to think critically. Jane Healy’s two books Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think and What We Can Do About It and Failure to [...]

What propaganda technique is used in this XBox commercial? Post your answer on the Christian Logic blog.

“Proof By Lack of Evidence” fallacy video.

Solve logic puzzles and games on the Christian Logic forum.

One day in my biology class, my teacher started talking about inductive and deductive logic, and he said that science is deductive and things like religions are inductive. But aren’t the first 2 chapters in Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis purely deductive?…..
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