When fuzzy logic meets crispy bacon

ONE of my favourite moments from university was in a dank NUS seminar room: I was listening to a philosophy professor list - seemingly endlessly - all the ways an argument could appear logical, but actually be utterly fallacious.

I remember gaping in awe as he tore down, in one fell swoop, all the arguments that had been used against me as a kid - including that old favourite: "Because I said so!"

I especially loved learning how flawed the "slippery slope" line of reasoning can be; you know, where one contends that because A would lead to B - which would lead to C, D, and eventually some catastrophic Z - A wasn't permissible at all.