A printable summary of key concepts, connectives, valid argument forms, formal and informal fallacies, and a five step method for any argument.
Learn to spot six common fallacies that try to win an argument by appealing to something irrelevant rather than by giving good reasons.
How arguments can mislead by smuggling in hidden assumptions or by exploiting slippery word meanings.
How analogies and generalisations work as arguments, and how to judge whether they succeed.
How to tell whether one thing genuinely causes another, and why headlines about health and science so often mislead.
How probability shapes evidence, and why our intuitions about it so often lead us astray.
A practical, step-by-step method for evaluating arguments encountered in news reports, political speeches, advertisements, online debates and AI chatbot answers.