How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic by Madsen Pirie

Author:Madsen Pirie
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: critical thinking, , logic, Education & Reference, Logic
ISBN: 9780826490063
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2006-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

Classification of fallacies The formal fallacies

The informal linguistic fallacies

The informal fallacies of relevance (omission)

The informal fallacies of relevance (intrusion)

The informal fallacies of relevance (presumption)

Table of Contents

Cover

Copyright page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Alphabetical List of Fallacies

Accent

Accident

Affirming the consequent

Amphiboly

Analogical fallcy

Antiquitam, argumentum ad

Apriorism

Baculum, argumentum ad

Bifurcation

Blinding with science

The bogus dilemma

Circulus in probando

The complex question (plurium interrogationum)

Composition

Concealed quantification

Conclusion which denies premises

Contradictory premises

Crumenam, argumentum ad

Cum hoc ergo propter hoc

Damning the alternatives

Definitional retreat

Denying the antecedent

Dicto simpliciter

Division

Emotional appeals

Equivocation

Every schoolboy knows

The exception that proves the rule

Exclusive premises

The existential fallacy

Ex-post-facto statistics

Extensional pruning

False conversion

False precision

The gambler's fallacy

The genetic fallacy

Half-concealed qualification

Hedging

Hominem (abusive), argumentum ad

Hominem (circumstantial), argumentum ad

Ignorantiam, argumentum ad

Ignorantio elenchi

Illicit process

Irrelevant humour

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