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Saturday, January 15, 2005

Hunting Humbug

Techniques for arguing effectively and spotting faulty reasoning:
  • The Devil's Advocate
  • Falsification
  • Hume's Razor
  • Inversion
  • Occam's Razor
  • Opinion/Argument/Fallacy/Humbug
  • Principles of Skepticism
  • Scientific Theory
  • Signs of Bogus Science
  • The Socratic Method
  • Spin Another Hypothesis
  • Substitution
Don't forget to check out the Fallacy List
Posted by Theo Clark at 10:26 pm
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