From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 11:21:18 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Mission:Critical and Informal Fallacies
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On Mon, Nov 17, 1997 at 06:49:45PM -0500, Robert Hettinga wrote:
[...]
> In the meantime, I wanted to find a quick and dirty list of informal
> logical fallacies, and, while I was at it, I bumped into Mission:Critical,
> which is fairly comprenensive website on logic an critical thinking.
> Evidently you can earn college credit on it, for those of you who need
> college credit. :-). Here it is.
> 
> http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/
> 
> Also, I've found a reasonable list of informal fallacies, from
> <http://ddi.digital.net/~setzerl/LOGIC.htm>, (which see for applicable
> attributions) which I've appended here. That way, you can all keep score at
> home. Expect me to use a bunch, whether I want to or not... :-). Notice
> that argumentum ad hominem is when you discount someone's opinion because
> of who they are or what they do. Vuperative insults, it seems, are another
> thing altogether.  :-).

Another very good source on critical thinking is the alt.athiesm faq.  

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