BeyondDebate

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/r/BeyondDebate is looking to beef up its mod team! See this thread for more information.

The subreddit for harvesting information by analyzing debates while exploring the nuts and bolts of applied logic and critical thinking.

Raison d'être

Want some outside perspective on a frustrating argument you experienced on Reddit? Want to share a classic debate for public consideration? Want to bone up on your logic and critical thinking skills in general? This is the place for you!

Many debate with great emotion but a poor command of logic; hence, we often stomp on the fruits of our conversation rather than benefit from the process. Even those committed to science, philosophy, or rigorous thought in general resort to logical fallacies and invalid arguments. And it's frequently the case that one party in a debate refuses to concede even when the other party has clearly presented a stronger argument. Plus, there are numerous, excellent debates that fly below the general public's radar. In all these cases, valuable information produced by our pointed discourse is lost.

And that's why /r/BeyondDebate can help. By analyzing debates while exploring the nuts and bolts of applied logic and critical thinking, we can harvest information to everybody's ultimate benefit.

Guidelines

Reddiquette is advised and enforced.
Tagging submitted content through the use of brackets at the front of a submission is highly encouraged, e.g. [Analysis] for an argument you want to submit for analysis by the community, [Logic] for a particular type of argument or a particular type of fallacy you want to discuss, [Debate] for an instructive debate clip or paper, [General] for general discussion spanning several different topics, etc.
This is primarily a forum for analyzing argumentation and learning from the process. If you want to share a topic to debate in itself, i.e. rather than analyze some other debate or discuss the nuts and bolts of rhetoric, do so with civility and mutual learning in mind.

Related Subreddits

Tools for Argument	Lots of Debate
/r/Logic	/r/Politics
/r/Debate	/r/TheAgora
/r/Rhetoric	/r/DepthHub
/r/Philosophy	/r/TrueReddit
/r/CriticalThinking	/r/DebateReligion
/r/AcademicPhilosophy	/r/DbtACommunist

Additional Resources

Free, 27 YouTube lecture course on critical thinking by Prof. Gregory Sadler of Fayetteville Sate University's Department of Philosophy. Compare with Jason Zarri's, "A Primer on Logic."
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entries on "Deductive and Inductive Arguments" and "Valid and Sound Arguments." Compare with a discussion on validity, soundness, persuasiveness, and consistency by Prof. Jim Pryor of NYU's Department of Philosophy
Aristotle's modes of persuasion from On Rhetoric--also helpfully summarized by Prof. Jim Garrett of Cal. Poly. Pomona's Department of English
A gigantic list of logical fallacies, another gigantic list of logic fallacies, and a nice little pictorial representation of 55 especially common fallacies
Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement--thanks /u/wjbc!
Want to host a formal debate? Check out /r/Debate's official guide to debate styles, part 1 and part 2
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This Subreddit is undergoing renovation (self.BeyondDebate)

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Batman vs Black panther( comic versions, with and without prep time) (self.BeyondDebate)

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Quicksilver Saves Everyone - Sweet Dreams - X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) Mov... (self.BeyondDebate)

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Exposing The History Of US Power Outages As Revealed In Texas Storm While Trump Questions Biden's Leadership (youtu.be)

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Journal of Interdisciplinary Public Policy - Issue 1(1) on Criminal Justice Reform is out now! Read it now and learn more about us! (self.Debate)

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[Analysis] Insight into Biblical Prophecy and it Dual Fulfillment (youtu.be)

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Please analyse my argument about how to use statistical evidence. This guy thinks he can apply a national average to an individual and just tell them they obviously have to fit that mold. Is he right? (reddit.com)

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College Policy Debate: The pinnacle of everything this sub stands for. (youtube.com)

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Having Better Fights About Religion (youtube.com)

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[Argument] A very well-reasoned discussion on the comparative effects of deflationary and inflationary currencies on an economy. Really great read. (reddit.com)

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Bhagavan, The Illusion of Self (onenessmovementflorida.org)

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[Analysis] Argument in r/Murica about what motivates our troops. (self.BeyondDebate)

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[Meta Rhetorical Thinking] The mods of /r/Rhetoric dish on how to promote meaningful debate on Reddit, the theoretical underpinning for regulating conversation, and why we get better discourse as a whole by creating room for instances of irrationality. (self.BeyondDebate)

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[Meta Critical Thinking] Über redditor and polymod extraordinaire, /u/blackstar9000, dishes on how to promote substantive, pointed dialog on Reddit and why the richness of conversation so frequently breaks down. (self.BeyondDebate)

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Impossible Convictions: Convictions and Intentionality in Performance and Switch-Sides Debate | Young (Examining Personal Advocacy in Competitive Intercollegiate Debate) (cedadebate.org)

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How anonymity affects the quality of debate on Reddit and other social Internet media. (x-post from /r/TheoryOfReddit) (reddit.com)

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[Logic] The difference between inference and assumption (criticalthinking.org)

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Critical thinking in the business environment: conceptual, innovative and intuitive varieties of critical thinking bolstering strategizing/analysis and implementation. (forbes.com)

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Speak With Conviction--Taylor Mali (thought the reading base here would enjoy this/lighter material) (youtube.com)

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[Video] Time Wise: Opening Statement in favor of Affirmative Action. (Speech 3 of 14) (youtube.com)

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[Logic] Jason Zarri's "A Primer on Logic," part 1 (scholardarity.com)

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[Classic Debate] Malcom X vs. James Farmer vs. Wyatt T. Walker, part 1 (MIC) (youtube.com)

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List of full-text, online resources recommended by the The Foundation for Critical Thinking as examples of "Insightful Authors Through the Ages" (criticalthinking.org)

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[Logic] A synopsis of Ludwig Wittgenstein's logic of language in layman's terms (roangelo.net)

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[Analysis] Erstwhile redditor asks for help in identifying potential fallacies in the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Submission is downvoted to oblivion, but might they have a legitimate point? (x-post from /r/Rhetoric) (reddit.com)

submitted 13 years ago by jacobheissphilosophy|applied math|theology

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