Логическа култура и Критическо мислене срещу медийните манипулации
Logical Culture and Critical Thinking against Media Manipulations

Summary/Abstract: The main thesis is that, in order to counteract against media manipulations, it is necessary to enhance the logical culture of the population - specifically, culture related to the theory of argumentation and critical thinking. This would help seeing through many assertions pretending to logical argumentation, which (more or less successfully) merely imitate logical justification but are in fact not logically correct, (being fallacies). The author points out certain basic fallacies on which media manipulations are based: the false dilemma, concealment of the real dilemma, affirming the consequent, argumentum ad hominem, false analogy, argument from authority, substitution of the opponent’s thesis with an easily refutable thesis, conjunction as implication, appeal to probability. Certain examples of these fallacies are drawn from the media and presented.

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