Ah, nothing like a little logical paradox for Christmas. Today we will look at how to make a valid argument—that disagrees with itself and makes no sense. Dive in to the paradox of entailment. When ...

We began this course by defining an ARGUMENT as a connected series of claims intended to ESTABLISH the TRUTH of one major claim, the conclusion. We also acknowledged that SOME CLAIMS ARE TRUE (or ...

When the Court heard argument Monday morning in No. 10-290, Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Limited Partnership, it had as distinguished a group of advocates as it is likely to have this Term: former Solicitor ...

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education. Monograph, Vol. 15, Psychometric Methods in Mathematics Education: Opportunities, Challenges, and Interdisciplinary Collaborations (2016), pp. 155-174 ...

"I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side," said GK Chesterton. "I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side." Arguments are attempts to persuade by ...

Peter Ellerton does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Ghana’s once blossoming economy has, this year, been junk-rated by almost all of the known internationally acclaimed rating agencies, such as Bloomberg, Moody’s, and S&P. Thus, the ‘hardness of times’ ...