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Logical fallacies exposed!
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Speaker 0 (0s): Ladies and gentlemen for the thousands in attendance and the millions watching around the world,  

Speaker 1 (12s): Classic for you guys. Welcome to the podcast. So happy you're here. So there's these two members of a synagogue and they're having this terrible argument. And one of them says, do you stand for the repetition of the Amita? Or do you sit there arguing, screaming, just going at each other? No, you have to stand. No, you have to sit. Finally, they go and see the last surviving founder of the show. They say, mr. Burnbaum you have to solve this for us. Do you sit or do you stand? 

And they say, well, do you sit? And he looks at him and scratches his head. And he says, no, that's not the tradition. So we stand then. No, no, that's not the tradition. And I say, listen, mr. Bernbach, we are ready to start killing each other. And he says, yeah, yeah, that's the tradition. 

Speaker 0 (58s):  

Speaker 1 (1m 2s): Argumentation. My friends. Do you like to argue? You like to have critical conversations. How about a civil discourse? What about a debate? Everyone loves a debate. I love a good debate. You know how to have a good debate. You have to utilize good language. It's also important to realize in any argument, especially in argument with someone you love the purpose of an argument. Do you know what that is? I'll tell you the purpose of an argument to solve a problem. 

You know what I do? I forget that sometimes you ever do that, like right in the heat of an argument, instead of worrying about the issue, you decide that you must, when you decide you must have the last word, that song by Billy Joel, you had to be a big shot. Didn't you, you had to have the last word last night. You ever fall into that trap. You ever get goaded into that trap or someone slings and ad hominem attack at you and you fire back with one. 

And then all of a sudden, you're no longer even talking about the issue. You're just trying to hurt the other person that happens way too much and it doesn't solve anything. It makes things worse. I learned that way too late in life. So this series a podcast is going to be about argumentation, logical, fallacies, and how to create a better discourse in your home environment and work environment. And with people you love one key point. 

I want everyone to realize is that the way you speak to other people is usually the way you speak to yourself. Do you know what I mean by that, that voice in your head, that internal dialogue, all long we're thinking and what is thinking? Well, it's asking yourself questions. You may not talk to yourself and ask those questions out loud, but inside your mind's eye, inside your mind, your cognitive apparatus, you are asking, answering questions. 

You are navigating your way through life by asking those questions. And a lot of times our inner dialogue shapes our view of the world. That's why I say so often that the world is made of language. The language we use describes who we are and it describes the world. We see it's important to also remember, we can't go anywhere without a linguistic pathway. So logical fallacies are not only something that we use in our argumentation or our discussion with other people. 

They are the terms in which we define ourselves. One of the most important components of learning is academic discourse. It requires argumentation and debate, argume