To strip the power from an emotional abuser, you must recognize their argument tactics for what they are: logical fallacies. Narcissists tend to vastly overestimate the accuracy of their own beliefs.

On Feb. 18, 1965, the famed Cambridge Union at Britain’s University of Cambridge held a debate between James Baldwin, the illustrious American author, orator and civil rights activist, and William F.

Formal logic helps us build and evaluate rational arguments, which helps us to test claims, explain our reasoning, and keep discussions clear. The first step in learning formal logic is learning about ...

A guy I knew in college once told me, as I struggled to make a point in a dorm lounge argument, that I had “the verbal acuity of shampoo.” The put-down was so devastating that it immediately ended ...