by Argumentful | Apr 3, 2020 | Critical thinking posts |
Artistic Proof Artistic proof is a term used in classical rhetoric and it refers to the means of persuasion that a speaker could employ. ‘Proof’ being the actual mean of persuasion. “Artistic” because the person who employs it has to work at creating it, it does not...
by Argumentful | Mar 25, 2020 | Critical thinking posts, Fake News |
TL;DR: it’s probably bats. As is normal during critical times, many rumours or conspiracy theories emerged around the source of the coronavirus: An older uncle will tell you about the European leaders’ hidden plan to wipe old people since they “live too long”,...
by Argumentful | Mar 17, 2020 | Critical thinking posts |
Life is all about choices. Or others might like to say it is about decisions. When we look back at our personal history, we might be tempted to believe that things happened to us, that events took over, that we were drifted on life’s waves. But is it really so? Try to...
by Argumentful | Mar 1, 2020 | Critical thinking posts |
We’re writing this post just to show how science deals with such questions because, amongst ourselves, we’ve settled this dispute a long time ago: Wish you were here (1975) is the best album! To provide a little context, the three Pink Floyd albums that...
by Argumentful | Feb 11, 2020 | Critical thinking posts |
Employee performance evaluations – they should occur regularly (e.g. yearly), they should be in line with a company’s expectations for each job level and apply fairly to everyone. We didn’t include “in an ideal world” because some...
by Argumentful | Feb 9, 2020 | Critical thinking posts |
We’ve seen in the book Truth Decay discussed in the previous post that there’s a declining trust in traditional institutions and people tend to have more confidence in what their friends or favourite media outlets say than in proper argumentation. It would...
