While at the library a few days ago, I picked up a book entitled The Power of Logical Thinking by columnist Marilyn vos Savant.  I liked what she had to say, so I'm reprinting it here:

A fallacy is not just an error in reasoning; it is a falsity in a argument that appears sound.

1. Verbal fallacies arise out of the ambiguity of the words used to ( Read more... )