I like Anne's suggestion on how to make good use of the election:
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If you're thinking of studying logical fallacies with your children, election season is the perfect time! PalmGirl has no trouble coming up with examples of the fallacies she's studying in Art of Argument. Fallacies abound!
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Critical thinking is important.
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4 comments:
Oh my, so true!
~Luke
I think it would be a harder challenge to find valid arguments.
We've been using it for rhetoric and economics. We had a long conversation a couple weeks ago about why the statements about the candidates were different, depending on which candidate was speaking.
That morphed into questioning about how the president could create any jobs and progressive vs. regressive tax rates and how "fairness" depended on your point of view.
sebastian - thank you. Thank you for educating your children to be able to use logic and look pass the rhetoric.
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