How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic (2006)

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How to Win Every Argument The Use and Abuse of Logic Madsen Pirie •\ continuum ••LONDON • NEW YORK ...

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Contents Acknowledgments viii Introduction ix Abusive analogy Accent Accident Affirming the consequent Amphiboly Analogical fall ...

VI How to Win Every Argument Definitional retreat Denying the antecedent Dicto simpliciter Division Emotional appeals Equivocati ...

Contents vu Poisoning the well Populum, argumentum ad Positive conclusion from negative premise Post hoc ergo propter hoc Quater ...

Acknowledgments My thanks for their helpful suggestions go to Eamonn Butler and John O'Sullivan. For assistance with the prepara ...

Introduction Sound reasoning is the basis of winning at argument. Logical fallacies undermine arguments. They are a source of en ...

X How to Win Every Argument fallacy, given examples of it, and shown why it is fallacious. After any points of general interest ...

Abusive analogy The fallacy of abusive analogy is a highly specialized version of the ad hominem argument. Instead of the arguer ...

2 How to Win Every Argument In congratulating my colleague on his new job, let me point out that he has no more experience of it ...

Accent 3 the best-presented case you could find: 'a speech like a Texas longhorn; a point here, a point there, but a whole lot o ...

4 How to Win Every Argument (Actually, we probably read that men are born equal. Born equal carries an implication that they do ...

Accident 5 It is particularly useful when you are advocating a course of action which normally meets with general disapproval. A ...

6 How to Win Every Argument which follow upon certain actions could be overturned on the grounds that they did not cover the cas ...