There is truth in the universe. A principled person strives to live by truth. An intellectually honest person never stops investigating, never stops questioning, and never stops seeking the truth.
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Posted by Hallee on Apr 1, 2010 in
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In this post, I will discuss the Fallacy of Division and Fallacy of Composition.
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Posted by Hallee on Mar 9, 2010 in
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In this post, I will discuss the Genetic Fallacy and the Gambler’s Fallacy.
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Posted by Hallee on Dec 29, 2009 in
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Fallacies from relevance ignore the point at hand and attempt to derail the argument by bringing irrelevancies into the arena of the debate. In this post, I will discuss the Ad Hominem abusive and the Ad Hominem circumstantial.
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Before I step into the primordial soup that is Chemical Evolution, which slips nicely down the logical slope into the quagmire of Abiogenesis, I must preface those future posts with some foundational data. This data is important for context. The foundational data we must examine has to do with the fallacy of Darwinist reification and the age of the earth. In this post, I will focus on reification.
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Posted by Hallee on Nov 19, 2009 in
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These seven critical reading strategies can be learned readily and then applied not only to reading selections in a Literature class, but also to your other college reading. Mastering these strategies will help you handle difficult material with confidence.
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