PHIL-447-Week 4: Risks, Dangers, and Fallacies – Discussion

PHIL-447-Week 4: Risks, Dangers, and Fallacies – Discussion

The astrophysicist Carl Sagan in his book The Demon Haunted World recommended that people be educated in a set of skills he called a “baloney detection kit.” These include such techniques as requesting facts to back claims and seeing whether a claim can be empirically tested. What techniques would you have in your baloney detection kit? Why would they help you distinguish logical and reasonable arguments from lies and nonsense?

 

 

 

 

 

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