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

The existential fallacy 67 (Many of us are negative about puddings, but two negative state- ments about them will not tell us an ...

68 How to Win Every Argument The existential fallacy occurs when we draw a conclusion which implies existence from premises whic ...

Ex-post-facto statistics 69 no evidence that any of these things exist at all. Statements are made telling what the things must ...

70 How to Win Every Argument We cannot draw too many conclusions from the low 'prob- ability' of certain past events. Something ...

Ex-post-facto statistics 71 different, no doubt different beings in a different universe would be congratulating themselves on t ...

(^72) How to Win Every Argument (If you can fit going to the pub in between being used as a punchbag by the universe, lines like ...

Extensional pruning 73 both user and hearer, or no reasoned discussion is possible. There are two ways of committing this fallac ...

74 How to Win Every Argument You can add extensional pruning to your repertoire once you are adept at making a limited statement ...

False conversion 75 All are Some are None are Some are not The rule is that only types 2 and 3 give valid conversions. If you ...

76 How to Win Every Argument tends to be more common, and more deceptive, when it appears in the 'some are not' form. Since we k ...

False precision 77 Both mathematics and science make widespread use of numbers, and both have prestige as sources of authority. ...

78 How to Win Every Argument False precision is as necessary to the continued happiness of many academics as are public money an ...

The gambler's fallacy 79 up an army of white-coated scientists with horn-rimmed spec- tacles, and dedicated doctors with stethos ...

80 How to Win Every Argument was for each of the other tosses. The previous tosses do not affect the odds for the next one. In r ...

The gambler's fallacy 81 Many so-called 'systems' of gambling are based on the gam- bler's fallacy. If betting on a 1 in 2 chanc ...

82 How to Win Every Argument The genetic fallacy The genetic fallacy has nothing to do with Darwin or Mendel, but a great deal t ...

Half-concealed qualification 83 of local politics. Had the same objections come from Friends of the Earth they might have found ...

84 How to Win Every Argument audience barely notice them on the way to a discussion about a more general statement. Practically ...

Half-concealed qualification 85 the distance between them. In daily life, however, we are less rigorous, and the fallacy finds r ...

86 How to Win Every Argument Hedging Hedging is put around arguments, as it is around fields of crops, to prevent them from bein ...