To argue that Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV did not apply for amnesty because his application for amnesty is missing is to commit the fallacy of argument from silence. This fallacy of reasoning states ...

The bulk of the constitutional argument in the brief was that there is compulsion in Fifth Amendment terms whenever the state uses an individual’s silence against an individual, “because it leaves him ...

If there’s one thing I inherited from my father, and there are plenty, it’s my argumentative nature. I cannot shirk away from debate. Whether it’s light and playful or it’s something I ...

The Court’s prior precedents do suggest that state courts should not be held to too exacting a standard of how they deal with prisoner claims that will ultimately wind up in federal court, and the ...

Life is full of paradoxes; this post, and its argument for silence, is another. The use of words to suggest being silent is ironic. But what do we really say when we speak? What is really ...