Flawed reasoning quietly wrecks writing, from political commentary to brand stories. This series breaks down how logical fallacies and cognitive biases weaken arguments, distort narratives, and lose readers, using real published examples. You’ll learn to spot confirmation bias, false dichotomies, ad hominem, and the rest, in others’ work and your own. Good writing starts with clear thinking.
Logical Fallacies and Cognitive BiasesThis is about reasoning, not partisanship. A widely shared op-ed by a Democratic strategist makes for a clean case study, confident, persuasive on the surface, and built on a stack of logical fallacies and cognitive bias. Picking it apart teaches…
Logical Fallacies and Cognitive BiasesWhen a character's argument is built on a fallacy, readers feel it even when they cannot name it, the speech rings hollow, the nonfiction loses credibility, the character starts to sound manipulative. Spotting fallacies makes you better in both directions:…
Logical Fallacies and Cognitive BiasesAcross 54+ ghostwritten books, mostly nonfiction, I have had to catch logical fallacies the authors never saw, and that is no insult to them. They are experts in their fields; expertise and watertight reasoning simply are not the same thing.…
Logical Fallacies and Cognitive BiasesIn academic writing a logical fallacy is an error to correct. In fiction it is a gift, because flawed reasoning that feels airtight to the character is exactly what drives conflict, dialogue, and plot. This overview opens a series on…
Logical Fallacies and Cognitive BiasesWhen intelligent people make terrible arguments, logical fallacies are usually the culprit. They are wrecking our capacity for productive conversation, and social media turned it into a spectator sport. Here are the ten I see most often, with the fixes.
Logical Fallacies and Cognitive BiasesCritical thinking asks whether a claim is true. Consequential thinking asks what happens next if you act on it. Here is why the second skill is rarer and how to practice it.
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