Forum: Critical thinking and logic.

I have just seen the term "extremely skeptical" used and it looks wrong to me - a bit like "almost unique" or "nearly pregnant". Am I wrong?

Mostly for fun. Ancient lore has it that Sir Humphrey was shocked ( but not, of course, surprised) to hear Hacker propound the following...

Made the mistake of reading some philosophy and ended with a question - silly me. Deductive reasoning is accepted as truly rational: progression...

Sorry if this has been answered. My question is "Why does absence of belief seem to be less important than belief?" The example I give is...

I came across this bizarre outburst at Scepcop: Here is the rest: http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/Page4.htm It's easy to mock this. (...

I have been thinking about critical thinking and it`s teaching in schools. I have two very young children and hope that when they go to school they...

We've seen posters recently who seem to have trouble with notions such as evidence, OR and BoP. To help them out, I invite comments on the weighty...

The DSM-IV defines delusion as; “a false belief based on incorrect inference about external reality that is firmly sustained despite what almost...

So here goes... For a definition of free will I quite like Answer.com's: The level of free will we have has been knocking around as a...

There is an item on the BBC news site today which emphasises how unreliable eywitness evidence is. It relates to that sad event in Crete where two...

God is a major problem for many people. Either there is evidence for God, or there is not. But a more important question to consider is: ...

Despite my post count, I'm very much the newbie to all this and I'd like to know what gets debated by skeptics? I mean with skeptics on both sides of...

I stumbled across this nice little video about coincidence 98OTsYfTt-c&feature

I'm still playing with the logic tutor and on the second self quiz re definitions this question came up: A COW is a bovine mammal. ...

I'm refering to the formal side, the words that go with it and the 'rules', not when someone was 6 and realised santa didn't exist! I've picked...

I thought I would start a thread for everyone to post up contextual examples of logical fallacies. This should help all readers here get a better...