I actually believe high school students would benefit from this. However, what surprises me is the sheer amount of college students who have no idea what simple logical fallacies are or how to avoid them.
Let's say I make this statement, "All lions are mammals. Mammals are animals, therefore lions are animals." They'd believe a statement like that was the exact same as "All mammals are lions or all animals are mammals!" This wouldn't bother me as much if I was surrounded by 10 year olds. However, this was in college, with adults who would soon face the world!
This example is similar to many real life experiences I had during discussions in college. Should schools make the students learn about logic, fallacies, etc? Should adults even value logical thought?
2007-04-12
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