Richard Carroll on Nostr: Knowledge of the fallacies is essential to reasoning well, but it is of limited value ...
Knowledge of the fallacies is essential to reasoning well, but it is of limited value if it is merely superficial knowledge, and may in that case even impede careful reasoning. It can lead to seeing fallacies where they do not exist, and thus lead away from truth rather than toward it. And if one’s knowledge of fallacies is deployed merely as a further rhetorical means of trying to make an opponent look bad, it constitutes sophistry rather than remedying sophistry.
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