Originally published on Sept. 25, 2018. In a world of divisive politics, rhetoric and debate, author Eugenia Cheng has the secret to winning an argument: mathematical logic. Cheng, a mathematician and ...

Yuri Arcurs peopleimages.com / Getty Images/iStockphoto When I was in college, I remember naively signing up for a course called “Introduction to Logic.” It turned out to be one of the greatest ...

For the majority the most convincing speaker in a debate is the loudest, most wildly gesticulating person. Validity of his argument be damned. Welcome to populist politics in Pakistan and around the ...

To advance a moral argument about the legality of controversial subjects such as abortion, there needs to be a reformulation of the way in which arguments are presented. When discussing highly ...

To persuade you, people often try to use logical fallacies (Credit: Javier Hirschfeld) When people are trying to persuade you, they sometimes reach for underhand tricks like the 'appeal to ignorance' ...