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

Affirming the consequent 7 spy-ring. And suppose there was only enough food for one, and you promised him... (The only amazing f ...

8 How to Win Every Argument (Before locking up your cats, reflect that the deceased feline might have been electrocuted, garrott ...

Amphiboly 9 eyewitness evidence, we work back from what is known to those actions which might have caused it. If he had been pla ...

10 How to Win Every Argument more than one way, and is usually the fault of careless grammar. The Duchess has a fine ship, but s ...

The analogical fallacy 11 FRENCH PUSH BOTTLES UP GERMANS! (Hand-to-hand combat, yes. But this is ridiculous.) Use of the amphibo ...

12 How to Win Every Argument (None of these false analogies likening the state to a human body ever seem to say much about its l ...

The analogical fallacy 13 As our culture ripens, it is only natural that it should, like any organism, put out seeds to reproduc ...

14 How to Win Every Argument Antiquitam, argumentant ad Students of political philosophy recognize in the argumentum ad antiquit ...

Apriorism 15 The commercial world is sensitive to the prevalence of the fallacy, and modifies its actions accordingly. A cigaret ...

16 How to Win Every Argument We don't need to look through your telescope, Mr Galileo. We know that there cannot be more than se ...

Baculum, argumentum ad 17 The fallacy of aphorism can also be used to support a pre- conceived judgement against the evidence. I ...

18 How to Win Every Argument It would be better if you told us what we want to know. After all, we wouldn't want your aged mothe ...

Bifurcation 19 Political parties founded on an idealized view of human nature frequently accuse their rivals of too frequently r ...

20 How to Win Every Argument (Some people might think you partly right. Others might be with you on some things, against you on ...

Bifurcation 21 concerned knows that neither is correct. Personality tests which pose hypothetical situations always grossly unde ...

22 How to Win Every Argument Blinding with science Science enjoys an enormous prestige because it has got so many things right. ...

Blinding with science 23 proposition is the same, whatever the language; and use of language to make its acceptance easier is fa ...

24 How to Win Every Argument and easily refuted into something profound, impressive and hard to deny. The small, domesticated ca ...

The bogus dilemma 25 dilemma is bogus. The bogus dilemma is the fallacy of falsely or mistakenly presenting a dilemma where none ...

26 How to Win Every Argument taking on a case, Protagoras sued him. The prosecution was simple: If the court decides for me, it ...