We’ve heard a lot about fake news. But also beware of fake logic. So let’s have a brief lesson in Latin and logic. In logic, a classic fallacy is known as post hoc ergo propter hoc. That Latin phrase, ...

To persuade you, people often try to use logical fallacies (Credit: Javier Hirschfeld) When people are trying to persuade you, they sometimes reach for underhand tricks like the 'appeal to ignorance' ...

Have you ever read an article or listened to a speech and thought to yourself, "Something about this just doesn't click." You were probably right, since neither papers nor orators tend to make ...

We’re always pleased when our readers write to us with questions or comments that really make us think. Here, for example, is reader K.S., who writes: Perhaps it was intended facetiously, if so I ...

The naturalistic fallacy, which was coined by the English philosopher George Edward Moore in the early 20th century though first identified much earlier by the Scottish philosopher David Hume, is the ...

The biggest lie those who create and spread misinformation perpetrate is that they want you to think for yourself. They warn their target audience not to be “sheep” and not to let themselves be told ...

Why successful acquisitions are harder than you think. I keep coming up against a logical fallacy in strategy that I feel compelled to address. The logic holds that when a company has a ...

Logical people are typically less biased. It makes sense semantically, but I’m also referring to the research. Studies show that participants who score higher on measures of logical reasoning or who ...