Faulty Logic
Bad leaps, false choices, and reasoning in circles
When the Logic Itself Breaks
Some fallacies don't dodge the argument. They build a broken one. They force fake choices, assume what they're trying to prove, or leap from a single case to a sweeping rule. Spotting the faulty structure lets you see why a conclusion does not follow.
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.”
Where this sits in the course
“Faulty Logic” is lesson 2 of 3 in Spot the Fallacy, a course about name the moves that make arguments collapse.. The lessons are sequenced rather than a menu, so this one assumes what came before it.
Spot the Fallacy is itself one of 18 courses in thinkr. The set opens with what philosophy is, moves through the Stoics and the Eastern traditions, then into what can be known, what exists, how to act and how power works — closing on practical reasoning you can use in an argument this week.
In the app this lesson is followed by 5 exercises that check whether the idea actually landed — and every answer, right or wrong, is explained rather than scored. That is the part a written page cannot reproduce.