Asa chemist, you may need to offer your expert advice on matters of importance, or you may find yourself in an argument with someone who feels passionately about something without any evidence to support their ideas.Being able to debate from a logical, factual point of view and spot fallacious arguments are important skills for everyday life as well as for your future career.
A fallacy is an invalid argument caused by faulty reasoning. Regardless of how attractive a fallacy is, it is not logically valid. Being able to spot fallacies in everyday life is incredibly important — it can stop you being fooled into believing something that isn’t true. Knowing when an argument is fallacious can give you power — and words — to call people out on bad reasoning and attempts to distract or to deflect attention. Being able to spot bad arguments might help you to create better arguments yourself.
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