Propositional fallacies | Syllogistic fallacies
The politician's syllogism, also known as the politician's logic or the politician's fallacy, is a logical fallacy of the form: 1. * We must do something. 2. * This is something. 3. * Therefore, we must do this. The politician's fallacy was identified in a 1988 episode of the BBC television political sitcom Yes, Prime Minister titled "Power to the People", and has taken added life on the Internet. The syllogism, invented by fictional British civil servants, has been quoted in the real British Parliament. The syllogism has also been quoted in American political discussion. As a meme, the quasi-formal name "politician's syllogism" is clunky and not widely known; the notion is often conveyed by invoking the central phrase this is something with ironic import, such as when a major league sports team whose season is in dire straits exchanges an aging athlete with a bad leg for an aging athlete with a bad arm. (Wikipedia).
Political Ideology: Crash Course Government and Politics #35
So today Craig is going to look at political ideology in America. We're going to focus on liberals and conservatives and talk about the influencers of both of these viewpoints. Now, it's important to remember that political ideologies don't always perfectly correspond with political partie
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History of the Presidential Nomination Process
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The Life and Works of Mary Wollstonecraft
In this module, Dr Sylvana Tomaselli (St John’s College, Cambridge) explores Wollstonecraft’s place in the history of political thought, focusing in particular on: (i) changing attitudes towards Wollstonecraft as a political thinker over time; (ii) the problem with -isms; (iii) problems wi
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Political Parties: Crash Course Government and Politics #40
Today, Craig is going to talk about political parties and their role in American politics. So, when most people think about political parties they associate them with the common ideologies of the voters and representatives within that party, but the goal of a party is NOT to influence poli
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Investigation Cognition || General Psychology (PSY 101)
This is a recorded version of a livestream distance learning lecture, recorded during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. Topics include: logical reasoning, deductive reasoning, syllogisms, belief bias effect, Calvillo et al. (2019), informal fallacies. I claim no ownership over any music
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1 Romanticism - In Search of a Definition (Isaiah Berlin 1965)
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What to Do with Sound-Bites: On Politics and Propaganda in the 21st Century - Danielle Allen
Danielle Allen Institute for Advanced Study February 27, 2008 Danielle Allen, UPS Foundation Professor, School of Social Science. The political season is upon us and so, if they were not before, our newspapers, radios, computer screens, and televisions are now overfull with sound-bites; a
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The fact that truth and validity are different (though related) concepts is one of the most difficult ideas for logic students to grasp. A valid syllogism can contain false statements. And true statements can often be found in invalid syllogisms. But the two concepts are neither necessary
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Gabriele Giannantoni explains the logic of Aristotle in the context of the history of logic in interview from 1990. These clips are from the Multimedia Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences. The translation is my own. #Philosophy #Aristotle
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In this module, we use the US Constitution as our “way in” to thinking about federalism, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court, focusing in particular on: (i) the Electoral College; (ii) the role of federalism and the Electoral College in preventing the ‘tyranny of the majority’; (iii) con
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Recorded: Spring 2014 Lecturer: Dr. Erin M. Buchanan Materials: created for Memory and Cognition (PSY 422) using Smith and Kosslyn (2006) Lecture materials and assignments available at statisticsofdoom.com. https://statisticsofdoom.com/page/other-courses/
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