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

Hedging 87 Caesarian section. He found this out after a very large hedge had moved from Birnam to Dunsinane.) Most oracles and i ...

88 How to Win Every Argument Hominem (abusive), argumentum ad If you cannot attack the argument, attack the arguer. While an ins ...

Hominem (abusive), argumentum ad 89 bearing on the issue under consideration. The use of personal attacks to cast doubt on the a ...

90 How to Win Every Argument It is with a heavy heart that I release copies of these photographs and letters. I ask you whether ...

Hominem (circumstantial), argumentum ad 91 No one in this university audience can be opposed to handing out state money to subsi ...

92 How to Win Every Argument include fairly large audiences. ('You, as members of the working class, will appreciate ...') Espec ...

Ignorantiam, argumentent ad 93 The positive version of ad ignorantiam asserts that what has not been disproved must happen. Ther ...

94 How to Win Every Argument have that knowledge if the thing were true. One would rightly reject a report that Camden Town Hall ...

Ignoratlo elenchl 95 / shall oppose this measure to permit people to leave school earlier by proving once again the value of edu ...

96 How to Win Every Argument did do is quite prepared to deny something else. It is a central feature of all points where journa ...

Illicit process 97 whether others should be banned from doing things you do not approve of. Jogging in public should be banned. ...

98 How to Win Every Argument conclusions about things we have no evidence on, and commit a fallacy by doing so. There is another ...

Irrelevant humour 99 them. Your expertise at illicit process will enable you to construct arguments based on what some of the cl ...

100 How to Win Every Argument drowning out any reasoned argument for the very good reason that they are a lot more interesting a ...

Lapident, argumentum ad 101 That sounds more like Guinesses talking than Genesis. (The volunteer was invariably discomfited by t ...

102 How to Win Every Argument of the stone, including the sight, sound and feel of a kick against it, is all perceived by the se ...

Lapident, argumentum ad 103 Reason is no guide; you must open your heart... and you will know. (This is not terribly useful to o ...

104 How to Win Every Argument Where you have control of events, you can afford to be less subtle: 'I don't care what time it is. ...

Lazarum, argumentum ad 105 culture compensates them for their poverty with extra measures of wisdom and virtue, sometimes of bea ...

106 How to Win Every Argument He puffed reflectively on his pipe, then looked at me with those strangely quiet eyes. He told me ...