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 ...

LSAT test-takers often complain that the test is too abstract and impractical. Outside of the logic games section, no one will ever make you frantically diagram which of the campers Aaron, Betsy and ...

Humans are biased. We remember things that confirm our beliefs more than things that don’t. And every day, we’re presented with new information and arguments that we have to sort through, especially ...

The two most important types of logic on the LSAT are conditional and causal reasoning. Conditional reasoning may be phrased in various ways, but it can be essentially reduced to if-then statements.

Technically, lame forms of argument are called informal rhetorical fallacies and often have fancy Latin names (e.g. post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy). That’s too bad, because they sure don’t belong ...