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

Cireulus in probando 27 Cireulus in probando Cireulus in probando is a specialized and very attractive form of the petitio princ ...

28 How to Win Every Argument testing is whether the new theory under examination is con- sistent with the rest of our theories. ...

The complex question (plurium interrogationum) 29 government in the 1960s, adopted after the most serious public debate, was bas ...

30 How to Win Every Argument All of them contain an assumption that the concealed question has already been answered affirmative ...

Composition 31 four more teeth than the adult male. None of them would be as effective as counting along a few jaws and denying ...

32 How to Win Every Argument / have gathered into one regiment all of the strongest men in the army. This will be my strongest r ...

Concealed quantification 33 Farmers benefit from price supports on beef; shoemakers gain from price supports on shoes, and so on ...

34 How to Win Every Argument of concealed quantification occurs when ambiguity of expression permits a misunderstanding of the q ...

Conclusion which denies premises 35 (This could mean that some do, but is unlikely to mean that all subversives are so employed. ...

36 How to Win Every Argument that certain things must be true, and ends up with a conclusion which flatly contradicts them. If t ...

Conclusion which denies premises 37 the original claim usually beg the question or subvert the argu- ment, 'Everything in the un ...

38 How to Win Every Argument Never believe what people tell you about patent medicine; they are always liars. It is because you ...

Crumenam, argumentum ad 39 We are given two premises, that milk is white, and milk is not white. If 'milk is white' is true, the ...

40 How to Win Every Argument (Maybe so. He might have added that right-handed people dis- agreed with him, that 6-foot-tall peop ...

Cum hoc ergo propter hoc 41 'Cabbie, get me to the airport by ten o'clock!' 'This cab ain't got wings, mister.' 'Here's £20 if y ...

42 How to Win Every Argument coincidence, or for the operation of an outside factor which separately influences those events. A ...

Cum hoc ergo propter hoc 43 was quite clear. Neat handwriting correlated with large feet, with 99 per cent probability that this ...

44 How to Win Every Argument A US legislator recently noted that a high crime-rate correlated with a high prison population, and ...

Damning the alternatives 45 Chelsea good. It might be that all football teams are absolutely terrible.) The fallacy occurs becau ...

46 How to Win Every Argument (The candidates tend to be more exotic in the USA; this might explain it.) The fallacy will give yo ...