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

Definitional retreat 47 (What can you call it then? How about calling it 'sitting on a deck- chair at Blackpool?') Words are use ...

48 How to Win Every Argument place and show that the ball would not have hit them in that position. A passage from Lewis Carroll ...

Denying the antecedent 49 second meaning all along, and only your critic has been so finicky as to ignore it: Everybody knows th ...

50 How to Win Every Argument slow.' The first of these is a type of argument called the modus ponens, the second is called the m ...

Dlcto simpliclter 51 into rejecting them. The fact that death and taxes will result anyway should not impinge on your success. D ...

52 How to Win Every Argument Dicto simpliciter arises whenever individuals are made to conform to group patterns. If they are tr ...

Division 53 Spinach is good for growing children. Eat it up. (But beware of the construction which says that 'all good children ...

54 How to Win Every Argument some of the prestige attached to the group or class to which he belongs. The French are tops at rug ...

Emotional appeals 55 Let me settle this. We British have a longer experience of settling disputes than anyone else in the world. ...

56 How to Win Every Argument that of reason. A complete range of fallacies is available, with as many names as there are emotion ...

Emotional appeals 57 and use language calculated to arouse that emotion. When you have built it up assiduously by means of graph ...

58 How to Win Every Argument An individual can be ensnared with sentimens, and led to drop a carefully thought-out position afte ...

Equivocation 59 So half a loaf is better than good health. Equivocal use of words is fallacious because it invites us to transfe ...

60 How to Win Every Argument What do you think of the singer's execution? (He replied: 'I'm all for it.') The advice given to a ...

Every schoolboy knows 61 truth of what they are saying. The audience, not wishing to be ignorant of matters so widely understood ...

62 How to Win Every Argument (It is not quite clear whether the mere child finds this obvious even before he becomes every schoo ...

The exception that proves the rule 63 centuries. Now as even beginners to the study of UFOs know only too well... (By this time ...

64 How to Win Every Argument No fictional character ever attracted fan clubs in distant countries like pop stars do. Sherlock Ho ...

Exclusive premises 65 fallacy quickly to get rid of them so that we can continue as before. The exception that proves the rule i ...

66 How to Win Every Argument (It seems innocent enough, but the logic is fishier than the handy- men. If we had used 'tax-dodger ...