Faulty Logic

Ahmad Junaidi, a lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Mataram University, founder of the Jage Kastare Foundation and a PhD candidate at Monash University speaks about the abuse of logic in the language of electoral campaigns.

Ahmad Junaidi receiving his certificate of participation in the Indonesia Forum Postgraduate Workshop at Melbourne University, 3rd Nov 2018. Source: Photo courtesy - SCW.

Why is an election campaign such fertile ground for the use of fallacious logic?  What can voters do to combat the different kinds of fallacious logic that politicians and their supporters use?  Ahmad Junaidi explains the potential political impact of erroneous reasoning.

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