In a series of posts on persuasive language, commonly referred to as rhetoric, I mentioned some rhetorical devices that can make a...

Try as I might to find a five-dumbbell example of recent political rhetoric, they seem to be in short supply these days. Liz Cheney gave...

At the end of the last post in this series on rhetoric, I indicated that things often considered positive qualities, such as fairness and...

In the last piece in this series on rhetoric, I talked about how to defend yourself against someone trying to get the best of you in a...

[Note: Some of today’s posting comes from a chapter on rhetoric in Critical Voter.] In the last posting in this series on rhetoric, I...

I hope you enjoyed the recent series about the role critical-thinking can play in ethical decision making through an analysis of cases in...

[Note: Some of today’s posting comes from a chapter on rhetoric in Critical Voter.] Before launching into a discussion of persuasive...

I wanted to use this week’s LogicChecker to introduce a set of techniques that can increase the power of an argument through strategic...

When it comes to critical thinking, the ambiguity inherent in language can easily lead to the fallacy of equivocation.

The Principle of Economy says you are better off trying to capture what you are trying to say in the fewest number of statements possible.

The Principle of Charity asks you to engage with the strongest version of an opponent's argument.

Accurate translation ensure that we are debating the argument someone actually made.

Translating everyday communication into unambiguous premises and conclusions of arguments is as much an art as a science.