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 ...

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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 ...

I think it is both possible and necessary for people to disagree with each other constructively on important matters. All perspectives deserve to be patiently heard, regardless of how egregious they ...

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