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Logos 0

Logos

Posted by on Apr 6, 2016 in Blog, Logic, Logos, Pathos and Ethos

Over the next three weeks, I’d like to take a look at a concept that can be found in nearly every chapter of Critical Voter, Aristotle’s three Modes of Persuasion, which include: Logos – An appeal to logic...

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Critical Voter – Free This Week 0

Critical Voter – Free This Week

Posted by on Apr 4, 2016 in Blog

From today until Friday, the Kindle version of Critical Voter is available for free at Amazon. So download it, read it, enjoy it and – if you can – please reach out to anyone you think might be interested in...

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Arguing with Bernie 0

Arguing with Bernie

Posted by on Apr 1, 2016 in Blog, Logic

I suspect that even those who are not Bernie boosters were less than satisfied with my recent analysis which used Aristotle’s Square of Opposition to argue against a Sanders campaign operative’s explanation...

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Announcements 0

Announcements

Posted by on Mar 30, 2016 in Blog

A couple of quick announcements: First, you can read an interview with yours truly here. Second, an additional lesson plan and check-for-understanding quiz was just added to the Critical Voter curriculum page...

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Contradicting Bernie 0

Contradicting Bernie

Posted by on Mar 28, 2016 in Blog, Logic

I realized that the last few weeks have been spent more on commentary than instruction. So today, let’s take a look at a campaign artifact (in this case, the statement of someone arguing in favor of one of...

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