Columnist Raymond Atkins explains eight common logical fallacies, urging readers to spot faulty reasoning in politics and daily life.

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Abstract: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has brought a potent way of supplementing the factual accuracy of large language model (LLM) responses through external knowledge sources. Nevertheless, ...

Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often struggle with knowledge-intensive tasks due to a lack of background knowledge and a tendency to hallucinate. To address these limitations, integrating ...

There are many so-called “fallacies of reasoning” that infest and corrupt potential honest, rational, logical discourse. I want to focus on the “Sunk Cost Fallacy.” Some may call it the appeal to ...

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