Spotting the Glitches in Your Thinking
Like Duolingo, but for Spotting the Glitches in Your Thinking. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
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Key ideas in Spotting the Glitches in Your Thinking
- An Ad Hominem attack targets the character of the person rather than the logic of their claim
- The Straw Man involves creating a 'fake' version of an argument to attack
- Personal insults do not invalidate the factual evidence provided in an argument
- Misrepresenting someone's point makes it easier to 'knock down' but doesn't actually address their real concern
- Ad Hominem
- Straw Man
- The Bandwagon fallacy assumes that because something is popular, it is correct
- The Either/Or fallacy ignores 'middle ground' options or alternative solutions
- Truth is determined by evidence, not by the number of people who believe it
- It forces a choice between two extremes when other possibilities exist
- The A.S.B.E. acronym helps categorize and identify the four most common beginner fallacies
- Using a mental checklist improves the ability to spot errors in real-time conversations
- Confirmation bias leads us to ignore or downplay evidence that contradicts our existing beliefs
- The brain uses 'ease of recall' as a shortcut for 'frequency'
- We tend to search for and favor information that supports our current 'side'
- Vivid or recent memories feel more common than they actually are
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Spotting the Glitches in Your Thinking the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
When someone twists your words into a ridiculous version that is easy to defeat, which fallacy are they using?
Get it right to open this lesson and 8 more in the app.
Where Spotting the Glitches in Your Thinking takes you
Learn to identify the common traps in human logic and protect yourself from being misled by others—and your own brain.
- 1
Spotting the Traps
- The Loudest Logical Fallacies
- Glitches in Your Own Brain
- 2
The Mental Self-Defense Kit
- Tools for Clearer Arguments
2 sections · 3 units · 9 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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