Originally published on Sept. 25, 2018. In a world of divisive politics, rhetoric and debate, author Eugenia Cheng has the secret to winning an argument: mathematical logic. Cheng, a mathematician and ...

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' ...

Yuri Arcurs peopleimages.com / Getty Images/iStockphoto When I was in college, I remember naively signing up for a course called “Introduction to Logic.” It turned out to be one of the greatest ...

LSAT test-takers often complain that the test is too abstract and impractical. Outside of the logic games section, no one will ever make you frantically diagram which of the campers Aaron, Betsy and ...

Humans are biased. We remember things that confirm our beliefs more than things that don’t. And every day, we’re presented with new information and arguments that we have to sort through, especially ...

Noûs, the ancient Greek term for intellect, or mind, is one of the premier philosophy journals today. In its commitment to a broad, pluralist, non-doctrinal approach, Noûs publishes high-quality ...

The two most important types of logic on the LSAT are conditional and causal reasoning. Conditional reasoning may be phrased in various ways, but it can be essentially reduced to if-then statements.