Five Reasons to Make Logic a Part of Your Life
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Argumentum Ad Misericoriam
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From Seminary to Law School
By Gil Gatch, Most people think of a seminary only as a place where a person prepares to become a minister. Unfortunately, this misconception is probably keeping many people from considering Southern Evangelical Seminary as an option for graduate or undergraduate education. The scope of one’s possibilities by earning a degree from SES is much […]
The Logical Fallacy of Amphiboly and the Art of Ambiguity
Preliminary Comments Before we continue in the series, it was brought to my attention that there may be some benefit to the readers being exposed to the underlying metaphysics and epistemology upon which an Aristotelian logic is built. Without a doubt, exposure to metaphysical and epistemological realism will make you a better thinker and communicator. […]
