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

Unaccepted enthymemes 167 Bill must be stupid. You have to be stupid to fail a driving-test. (While the average listener might n ...

168 How to Win Every Argument unstated part necessary to complete the argument, instead of leaving them to blush naked. Darling, ...

The undistributed middle 169 are dogs. This is the simplest version of the notorious fallacy of the undistributed middle. Both h ...

170 How to Win Every Argument (Exit Jones, hurriedly, before it is pointed out that the worst oppressors of the working classes ...

Unobtainable perfection 171 Elitism is something only a few benefit from, and tennis is something only a few benefit from, so te ...

172 How to Win Every Argument The fallacy is very often used to reject changes to the status quo, even though the status quo its ...

Verecundiam, argumentum ad 173 suggestion to be opposed because it does not go far enough. You show its imperfections, and sugge ...

174 How to Win Every Argument Knowledge is specialized, and we have to accept the view of authorities to some extent. There is a ...

Verecundiam, argumentum ad 175 have proved their worth as presenters of radio or television programmes readily share with us the ...

176 How to Win Every Argument Wishful thinking While many of us engage quite happily in wishful thinking, we elevate it to the s ...

Wishful thinking 177 Death, in fact, is a subject especially prone to the fallacy of wishful thinking. Its abrupt and inconsider ...

178 How to Win Every Argument Most of us are already fairly adept at using the fallacy of wishful thinking to persuade ourselves ...

Classification of fallacies There are five broad categories into which fallacies fall. The most important division is between th ...

180 How to Win Every Argument The formal fallacies Affirming the consequent Conclusion which denies premises Contradictory premi ...

Classification of fallacies 181 Ignorantiam, argumentum ad Lapidem, argumentum ad Nauseam, argumentum ad One-sided assessment Re ...

182 How to Win Every Argument Loaded words Misericordiam, argumentum ad Poisoning the well Populum, argumentum ad The red herrin ...