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Khan Academy: Fallacies: Straw Man Fallacy
In this Wireless Philosophy video, Joseph Wu (University of Cambridge) introduces you to the straw man fallacy. This fallacy is committed whenever someone misrepresents an opponent's claim in arguing against it. [5:58]
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Khan Academy: Fallacies: Slippery Slope
In this Wireless Philosophy video, Joseph Wu (University of Cambridge) introduces you to the slippery slope argument. This argument is that when one event occurs, other related events will follow, and this slippery slope will eventually...
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Khan Academy: Fallacies: Red Herring
In this Wireless Philosophy video, Joseph Wu (University of Cambridge) introduces you to the red herring, a rhetorical device, and the fallacy that is often difficult to spot. A red herring occurs when something is introduced to an...
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Khan Academy: Fallacies: Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
In this video, Paul explains the post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc fallacy. This is an informal fallacy committed when a person reasons that because one event happened after another event, the first event caused the second. [5:41]
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Khan Academy: Fallacies: Equivocation
Joseph Wu (University of Cambridge) explains the fallacy of equivocation, the fallacy that occurs when the same term is used with different meanings in an argument. [6:29]
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Khan Academy: Fallacies: Fallacy of Division
In this video, Paul Henne describes the fallacy of division, the informal fallacy that arises when we assume that the parts of some whole must have the same properties as the whole they make up. [4:51]
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Khan Academy: Fallacies: Formal and Informal Fallacies
In this video, Paul describes the distinction between formal and informal fallacies.
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Sophia: Cpctc: Lesson 1
This lesson [8:19] will demonstrate the use of CPCTC in triangle congruency proofs. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "CPCTC."
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Khan Academy: Brain Teasers: Forehead Numbers Brain Teaser
The perfect logicians are at it again.
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Khan Academy: Brain Teasers: Blue Forehead Room Brain Teaser
What happens when 100 perfect logicians have to figure out if they each have a blue forehead?
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Sophia: Conditional, Contrapositive, Inverse, Converse, Biconditional
Students learn about the terms related to logic and conditional statements. Terms explored are conditional, contrapositive, inverse, converse, and biconditional.
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Khan Academy: Brain Teasers: Alien Abduction Brain Teaser
Saving Earth from becoming a mushroom farm.
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Khan Academy: Cognitive Biases: The Gi Joe Fallacy
In this video, Laurie Santos (Yale University) discusses why knowing about our cognitive biases is not enough to overcome them. She'll introduce a new cognitive error known as the G.I. Joe Fallacy, the tendency for our biases to stick...
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Khan Academy: Fundamentals: Implicit Premise
In this video, Kelley will go over how to identify implicit premises in all sorts of arguments and discuss when it is and is not acceptable to leave a premise implicit. [3:04]
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Khan Academy: Writing: Logical Comparison Basic Example
Watch David work through an SAT Writing logical comparison question. [3:59]
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Khan Academy: Sufficient Assumptions Worked Example
In this video [5:55] watch a demonstration of one way to approach a sufficient assumption question. It is a worked example.
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Khan Academy: Sufficient Assumptions Video Lesson
In this video [9:55] watch one way to approach a question that asks you to identify a sufficient assumption on the logical reasoning section of the LSAT.
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Sophia: Counterexamples: Lesson 2
This lesson will help a learner understand counterexamples. It is 2 of 7 in the series titled "Counterexamples." [1:43]
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Sophia: Counterexamples: Lesson 5
This lesson will help a learner understand counterexamples. It is 5 of 7 in the series titled "Counterexamples." [3:49]
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Sophia: Using Deductive Logic: Lesson 11
This lesson demonstrates the use of a process of elimination in order to solve a problem. It is 11 of 13 in the series titled "Using Deductive Logic."
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Sophia: Using Deductive Logic
This lesson demonstrates the use of a process of elimination in order to solve a problem.
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Sophia: Using Deductive Logic: Lesson 1
This lesson demonstrates the use of a process of elimination in order to solve a problem. It is 1 of 13 in the series titled "Using Deductive Logic."
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Sophia: Using Inductive Logic: Lesson 1
In this lesson, students see how to use inductive logic in order to solve a problem. It is 1 of 8 in the series titled "Using Inductive Logic."
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Sophia: Using Deductive Logic: Lesson 10
This lesson demonstrates the use of a process of elimination in order to solve a problem. It is 10 of 13 in the series titled "Using Deductive Logic."