Posted by Hallee on Dec 29, 2009 in
Critical Thinking,
homeschooling,
Parenting 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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Posted by Hallee on Nov 28, 2009 in
Critical Thinking,
homeschooling The Laws of Thought
1. The Law of Identity
2. The Law of Noncontradiction
3. The Law of Excluded Middle (aka. Excluded Third)
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