B Curious
Start free
Philosophy

How to Argue

Validity, fallacies, evidence and the sentences that eat themselves

Aristotle · Hume · Bayes · Tarski · 4 chapters · 13 min read

The machinery running under every argument in this library.

Free to read: every chapter below is open

Form

  1. 01Valid, Sound, and the DifferenceOn the difference between an argument that holds together and one that is true.
  2. 02The Faults That Have NamesOn a vocabulary that was built to improve arguments and now mostly ends them.

Evidence

  1. 03Updating on EvidenceOn the arithmetic that decides how much a piece of evidence should move you.
  2. 04Sentences That Eat ThemselvesOn sentences that cannot be true and cannot be false.