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' ...

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I sat in my van with tears. "What did I do wrong?" Logically, I knew the answer was nothing. There is not a thing that I did that caused my loved one to have cancer. Yet, guilt flowed through my veins ...