To hear numerous GOP and GOP-friendly (“conservative”) commentators tell it, both Christine Ford and Brett Kavanaugh are highly “credible.” Of course, none of these pundits claim to believe that Ford was telling the truth when she claimed that she was sexually assaulted by Judge Kavanaugh.  What they claim to believe is that she was indeed sexually abused—but by someone else. Aristotle, the Father of Western logic, identified numerous fallacies. One of these is the fallacy of equivocation. This is the fallacy of which those of Kavanaugh’s defenders who simultaneously find Ford “credible” stand convicted. Equivocation occurs when an arguer slides from one meaning of a term to … Continue reading Christine Ford vs. Brett Kavanaugh