Classical Education
Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric
What is the Trivium?
Two of the three broad categories of informal fallacies.
What are Fallacies of Clarity and Relevance.
Ad Fontem
What is "to the fountain/source?"
What is "An argument where the speaker assaults/attacks his rival with a great deal of abusive language in an attempt to avoid the issue?"
The Quadrivium
What are Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, and Astrology part of?
Ad Fontem Fallacies are a sub-category of this major category of Informal Fallacies.
What are "Fallacies of Relevance."
Ad Hominem
What is "to the man" in Latin?
The definition of "Ad Hominem Circumstantial."
What is "an argument that says or implies that the speaker’s rival should not be trusted in making his argument because of various circumstances regarding his rival?"
Logic
What is the art of thinking well?
The three types of Fallacies of Clarity.
What are Equivocation, Accent, and Distinction without a difference?
Tu Quoque
What is "and you too" in Latin?
The Definition of "Tu Quoque."
What is "an argument where the speaker assumes that his rival’s recommendation should be discounted because he does not follow it himself?"
How not to think.
What is Informal Logic?
The three kinds of Ad Fontem Fallacies.
Ad Hominem, Tu Quoque, and Genetic Fallacy.
The definition of Equivocation.
What is "An argument that fails because a key term is ambiguous/unclear?"
Definition of "Genetic Fallacies."
What is "an argument that states that an idea should be discounted simply because of its source or origin?"
To express and communicate the truth well.
What is the purpose of the Trivium: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric?
The two kinds of Ad Hominem Fallacies.
What are Ad Hominem Abusive and Ad Hominem Circumstantial?
The Definition of Accent.
What is "an argument that rests on an improper emphasis placed on certain words or phrases?"
Definition of "Fallacies of Relevance."
What are "arguments that have premises that do not “bear upon” the truth of the conclusions. In other words, they introduce an irrelevancy into the argument?"
To sharpen the mind and expand one's ability to think about the divine.
The category of learning strengthens the ability of the student to understand and communicate the truth, and the category of learning that studies the substance of God's reality.
What is Liberal Arts and Divine Studies?
The definition of "Distinction without a Difference."
What is "an argument that makes a distinction between two things that are actually not different from each other?"
Definition of "Fallacies of Clarity."
What are "arguments that fail because they contain words, phrases, or syntax that distort or cloud their meanings?"