For regulars at Ars Technica, the forums are as much a part of the site’s identity as the articles. And where there are forums, there are flame wars. The BattleFront is infamous for its contentious ...

Yuri Arcurs peopleimages.com / Getty Images/iStockphoto When I was in college, I remember naively signing up for a course called “Introduction to Logic.” It turned out to be one of the greatest ...

This week's post is the first in a series that will provide you with a complete overview of LSAT content and the basic skills you will need to perform your best on it. This first installment will ...

Originally published on Sept. 25, 2018. In a world of divisive politics, rhetoric and debate, author Eugenia Cheng has the secret to winning an argument: mathematical logic. Cheng, a mathematician and ...

Arguments are attempts to persuade by providing reasons (or premises or propositions) in support of a particular claim (or conclusion). In a deductive or ‘truth-preserving’ argument, the conclusion ...

Some find it plausible that a sufficiently long duration of torture is worse than any duration of mild headaches. Similarly, it has been claimed that a million humans living great lives is better than ...