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I would like to do a rewrite of this article. Does anyone object to me recategorizing the fallacies? If they are in some order now I can't really tell what it is. [[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]] 17:25, 27 February 2008 (EST)
I would like to do a rewrite of this article. Does anyone object to me recategorizing the fallacies? If they are in some order now I can't really tell what it is. [[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]] 17:25, 27 February 2008 (EST)
:Seems nobody objects, so here goes nothing. On problem I see immediately is that editing is going to turn off soon. A longer-term problem is that there are many links to the sections, so if I change the sections I will have to change all the pages that link that way. We will see. I'll start with the introduction. [[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]] 00:35, 21 March 2008 (EDT)
:Seems nobody objects, so here goes nothing. On problem I see immediately is that editing is going to turn off soon. A longer-term problem is that there are many links to the sections, so if I change the sections I will have to change all the pages that link that way. We will see. I'll start with the introduction. [[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]] 00:35, 21 March 2008 (EDT)
::Alright, all done. To see my individual edits, check out the history [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User:HelpJazz/workspace&action=history here] (look between March 21st and March 27th).
::As I was going through my rewrite, I noticed that "Your theory does not work under my theory, so your theory must be wrong" is only found on CreationWiki. It probably has a different name in other logical texts, but I don't know what it is.
::Additionally, I deleted the following section (which has been commented out to keep this page clean:
:::<Thar be text hidin' here>
<!-- == Logical fallacy and the educational establishment ==
Today, logic is offered as an elective in [[college]], not as a requirement. Various graduate-school admissions councils (among them the [http://www.mba.com/ Graduate Management Admissions Council] and the [http://www.lsac.org/ Law School Admissions Council]) have long recognized this fact and today test specifically for an appplicant's ability to [[Critical thinking|think critically]] and apply logic.
Thus the major admissions tests (Graduate Management Admission Test and Law School Admissions Test) feature questions on logical reasoning. A typical question would present an argument and ask either:
# What the argument assumes,
# What sort of evidence, if established, would significantly strengthen (or weaken) the argument, or
# Why the argument, as presented, is flawed.
Still other questions present arguments and then ask the test-taker what reasonable conclusions one might draw from them. Occasionally they present sets of two facts that might seem to contradict one another and ask the test-taker to explain how both facts can be true at once.
Many of the arguments presented (the ''stimuli'') and the wrong answer choices offered illustrate classic logical fallacies, often strikingly. Examples of ''argumentum ad hominem'' and the closely related fallacy of ''non sequitur'', to name two key errors, abound in these questions.
Yet for all this effort in trying to identify weaknesses in critical thinking, colleges tend to discourage critical thinking in other ways, mainly in that [[professor]]s often commit the very sort of logical fallacies that these tests, for example, challenge their test-takers with. -->
::There were a lot of problems, starting with the first sentence "Today, logic is offered as an elective in [[college]], not as a requirement." This is clearly not true at every college or for every major ([http://www.bucknell.edu/x1241.xml Philo majors?]). It is riddled with problems (''ad hominem'' is closely related to non ''sequiter''? Eeeeeeeeh sort of, kind of, in a general, round-about way) and the rest isn't really related to logic as much as it is to teaching in colleges. That being said, it can probably be put back in if someone wants to, but I would argue that it needs work. 00:00, 28 March 2008 (EDT)