Every age suffers from follies based on fallacies. Our principal fallacy is the mechanical man. The mechanical-man fallacy comes from an erroneous analogy based on a false metaphor. The false metaphor ...

I don’t mean to pick on Dargan Pete again, but his Jan. 15 column is a classic example of the “straw man” logical fallacy. For those readers who didn’t have a secondary school English class unit on ...

Straw man fallacy is a mistaken belief, especially based on unsound arguments. It, therefore, renders an argument invalid. A straw man fallacy occurs when someone takes another person's argument or ...

(Reuters) – Enthusiasm for new Indian central bank head Raghuram Rajan is understandable, but blind faith in him is misplaced. Sign up here. While Rajan, the former IMF chief economist who took over ...