Rhetoric

Be confident about what you do know and humble about what you don't.

Definitions

• Reason - "the capacity for consciously making sense of things, applying logic, for establishing and verifying facts, and changing or justifying practices, institutions, and beliefs based on new or existing information."
• Logic - Use of valid reasoning.
  • Deductive Reasoning - links premises with conclusions
    • It is possible to have a deductive argument that is logically valid but is not sound. Fallacious arguments often take that form.
• rhetoric - being persuasive, getting people to agree with you.
• debate - interactive argument

Ways people get it wrong

• List of fallacies
• List of cognitive biases
• List of memory biases