Further Reading on Arguments

This has been a brief overview of the critical analysis of arguments, telling you first why I think it's important, then giving a little information about what's involved. Many more eloquent writers than I have bent themselves to this task, so there are good resources to recommend for exploring this topic further.

Rational Wiki—http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page is mainly a website for debunking pseudoscience, crank claims, and biased presentation of the news. It has a comprehensive section on logic, argument, and fallacies. Less Wrong—http://lesswrong.com has a similar scope, and finally, the Skeptics Stack Exchange—http://skeptics.stackexchange.com Q&A site features community-scored arguments in support or refutation of a wide variety of positions on different topics. (Refutation means constructing an argument against a presented point of view; repudiation means to deny the truth of an opposing argument without justification...