The Role of Creativity and Innovation in Avoiding Fallacies in Thinking

The Role of Creativity and Innovation in Avoiding Fallacies in Thinking
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The Role of Creativity and Innovation in Avoiding Fallacies in Thinking
Innovation and creativity plays a key role in avoiding fallacies in one’s thinking. In this regard, education is the key aspect towards innovation and creativity. Additionally, it is argued that we all have talents that can be used to discover some new concepts. According to Robinson (2006), creativity is as important as literacy. It is worth noting that a fallacy is any argument which seems to be true or valid but not so in reality. Fallacies originate from the violation of the principles that the reasoning’s correctness depends on. They are thus mistakes in one’s reasoning. There are two types of fallacies: informal fallacy and formal fallacy. Thinking assists in revealing what one is doing, the manner in which one is doing something,...