This article could easily be viewed as a logical fallacy. A logical fallacy is a mistake in reasoning. It occurs when someone draws a conclusion that does not follow from the evidence or when someone ...

I don’t mean to pick on Dargan Pete again, but his Jan. 15 column is a classic example of the “straw man” logical fallacy. For those readers who didn’t have a secondary school English class unit on ...

This will be the third and last post in a series dealing with the ways in which depressed thinking is also illogical thinking. The hope is that for some people dealing with depression, this might be ...

When an addict is submerged in their drug, beverage, or behavior of choice, they tend to lose skill in terms of realistic reasoning. As a result, addicts tend to overcompensate by using faulty logic.

In any discussion of evolutionary psychology, or human sciences in general, it is very important to avoid two logical fallacies. They are called the naturalistic fallacy and the moralistic fallacy.