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Useful information for anyone who talks or writes.
We encounter fallacies almost everywhere we look. Politicians, salespeople, and children commonly use fallacies in order to get you to think whatever they want you to think. It’s important to learn to recognize fallacies so that you can avoid being fooled by them. It’s also important to learn about fallacies so that you avoid making fallacious arguments yourself. This course will show you how to identify and avoid many of the fallacies that lead people astray.
In this course, you will learn about fallacies. Fallacies are arguments that suffer from one or more common but avoidable defects: equivocation, circularity, vagueness, etc. It’s important to learn about fallacies so that you can recognize them when you see them, and not be fooled by them. It’s also important to learn about fallacies so that you avoid making fallacious arguments yourself. Suggested Readings Students who want more detailed explanations or additional exercises or who want to explore these topics in more depth should consult Understanding Arguments: An Introduction to Informal Logic, Ninth Edition, Concise, Chapters 13-17, by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Robert Fogelin. Course Format Each week will be divided into multiple video segments that can be viewed separately or in groups. There will be short ungraded quizzes after each segment (to check comprehension) and a longer graded quiz at the end of the course.
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Useful information for anyone who talks or writes.
SY
Interesting course although it might get too technical at times when it could have been by common sense/reasoning - and a great way to end the course with that video!
PR
This course helped me better understand logical fallacies and improved my ability to analyze arguments more critically and think more clearly before accepting conclusions.
CK
This course will be immensely helpful in structuring my thoughts in a logical and manner by addressing pertinent material and avoiding fallacy traps. Thank you so much!!!
AB
some of the videos were confusing fro english speakers
MS
This was one of the most engaging courses I have taken and both professors were a joy as I listened and learned!
SM
This entire series was informative, engaging, and fun, and the thinking skills taught are so valuable.
LB
This course has been incredible and more than anything because of the energy put by the instructors, I truly thank you for helping the world to become a better place to live. from Colombia, Luis.
MM
amazing course and amazing way of teaching it. it was a very important knowledge to have especially in this time of life where fallacies surround us everywhere
AM
The course is great, but i think it should include more problems or quizzes to apply what is learned in the lectures.
AG
Fun course. Great refresher on what makes up fallacies in communication.
NN
This was a nice course. Covers many fallacies in detail. Practice exercises are good. More fallacies could have been covered though. Overall, I did love the course.
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amazing course and amazing way of teaching it. it was a very important knowledge to have especially in this time of life where fallacies surround us everywhere
Excellent course on a deep dive into the world of arguments and their analysis, albeit this particular course deals with a part of it called fallacies. I really liked the course content, lecture delivery style, the quiz questions and the explanation provided to support the answers of the questions. However, for some of the questions that you encounter in the quiz, there is little supporting material in the lecture itself. I guess one can get a very good learning by going through the suggested text book in parallel. But since they suggested that the textbook is optional, I haven't gone through it yet. And without the text book, this course is probably a little bit incomplete.
This course can be made better by suggesting relevant sections in the book to go through as and when required. Probably that would better equip us in answering the quiz correctly.
This course will be immensely helpful in structuring my thoughts in a logical and manner by addressing pertinent material and avoiding fallacy traps. Thank you so much!!!
Really enjoyed the presentations although I thought a few of the videos needed to go slightly deeper into the specific point. Also, I noticed that other participants had gamed the discussions by just entering "n/a" as their contribution (on virtually every topic). I think that should be a disqualifying factor for completion. I find courses to be much more engaging if other participants/student actually engage. But, the course itself was very good. I'd love to take it "live."
This was a nice course. Covers many fallacies in detail. Practice exercises are good. More fallacies could have been covered though. Overall, I did love the course.
Não perca seu tempo com esse curso. Ele é desnecessariamente extenso, desvia para outros assuntos totalmente alheios ao tema. O exercício final, além de também desnecessariamente extenso, extremamente maçante e cansativo, é impossível de ser atingida a nota mínima, pois as simbologias dos enunciados são extremamente confusas, de maneira que apenas decifrar o que cada enunciado está solicitando já é um trabalho hercúleo. São 30 questões, cada uma com um enunciado mais confuso que a outra e que se alteram a cada tentativa, de modo que você não consegue nem reaproveitar o que já havia acertado. Enfim, é um curso extremamente chato, entediante, que poderia custar 10% do tempo que custa se fosse objetivo e que, a não ser por muita sorte, de tão mal elaboradas que são as questões. Um curso feito para você desistir. Abandonei.
Mantén el lenguaje claro y consistente Evita palabras ambiguas o que cambien de significado. No asumas lo que quieres probar Evita argumentos circulares (petición de principio). Revisa tus analogías Asegúrate de que las comparaciones sean realmente relevantes. Evita emociones como base del argumento No fundamentes conclusiones en miedo, autoridad, popularidad o compasión. Considera alternativas No te quedes solo con dos opciones si hay más (evita el falso dilema). Comprueba el contexto Asegúrate de que la información no esté sacada de contexto ni exagerada.
I thoroughly enjoyed this course. Some of the material was conceptually difficult for me (the subtleties in difference in definitions for various fallacious argument types) but I really appreciate being given the tools to dismantle arguments in order to decide whether or not they are sound as well as to formulate my own arguments in such a way as to align my expressions of my beliefs with my values (or at least to question the basis for my beliefs). Excellent course!
The entire course was so well planned and explained! I'm so grateful to have come across the opportunity to learn from Prof. Walter and Prof. Ram. Apart from the compelling course content that I plan to exercise in all kinds of situations to come, I would like to applaud the efforts that were taken to make this course so engaging and amicable. Totally recommend taking all 4 courses.
This will be one of my best learning experiences!
The course was challenging and interesting. I think I may have lost my job in the pursuit of higher education. A simple "not a fit" was the end of my few month career as a third grade teacher and the beginning of my full-time pursuit of higher education. I'm not really sure but the principal ensured me that I should be in higher education. Those kids kind of sucked anyway. Thank you.
Thank you for this course! I am studying various ways to improve my negotiation and communication skills. This course showed me, that it is possible to approach discussion as a logical structure, thus avoiding getting into emotional or personal negotiation track. Even if this is obvious, it never have occurred to me to point out invalid arguments and call them!
Great professors and content for a relatively short specialization. I never had the chance to study logic and critical thinking in my university degrees, so taking part in this specialization has been a great experience for me. I am looking forward to using the accumulated knowledge in real life and expanding my arguing horizons.
This was a nice last part for this specialization. I enjoyed the whole course and learned a lot of new things about logic and critical thinking. I am still a little confused about general logical thinking, but I think it will take some time to develop practical skills.
This series has been quite brilliant. These lectures totally changed the way I formulate my arguments and also help me identify fallacies of arguments of others and mine as well. Overall I strongly recommend this course as well as the entire Think Again series.
Loved it. The jokes in the videos, the great examples and the [spoilers] at the end was amazing! It made learning about fallacies and arguments a breeze and very interesting. I wish more people a lot of fun with this course and keep up the amazing work!
Love this course! been highly motivated by 2 professors, and even I took all the classes to the end but still need more time to practice how to apply it in real life, hopefully I would convince other more after learning.
Un curso importante, pues el aprender todos los temas vistos se me hizo esencial para mí, debido al área en la cual pretendo especializarme considero que tendré presentes muchos de estos temas indirecta o directamente.
This course has been incredible and more than anything because of the energy put by the instructors, I truly thank you for helping the world to become a better place to live.
from Colombia, Luis.
Challenging material presented by two engaging and sharp instructors. Highly recommend this course to any seeking to hone their logic and reasoning skills! The course will make you think!
This course helped me better understand logical fallacies and improved my ability to analyze arguments more critically and think more clearly before accepting conclusions.