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The Demon of Reason: Logical Fallacies

TED-Ed · 2016

"Logical fallacies are structural flaws in an argument's reasoning, independent of whether the conclusion happens to be true — which means an argument can be both persuasive and invalid at the same time, and learning to spot the structure is what protects you from the persuasion."

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A conclusion can be true and the argument for it can still be garbage. Those are two separate questions, and most people only ever check one of them.

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