Eliminating Fallacious Thinking

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life is to attempt to eliminate them from one's personal life and ordinary methods and processes of thinking. Instead of telling the person who brings doughnuts, rather than fruit to the office, "you're making me fat," post hoc, ergo propter hoc (arguing from a false cause) realize that it is one's own consumption of food, not the presence of fattening food that is the reason for one's burgeoning waistline. Just because a doctor tells a patient something about his or her health, the patient shouldn't automatically accept such an argument from authority. If the doctor's argument seems specious, get a second opinion. Even as simple as when a friend says, "it's no different from having to water your plants," when he or she asks you to dog-sit his or her Great Dane for the weekend, making a self-serving argument from a false analogy, one must deny these fallacies in everyday life, and lead a better, more rational life-and that's no ...

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