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

Loaded words 107 be forgetful or negligent; they may be steadfast or unyielding; they may be confident or arrogant. Many of thes ...

108 How to Win Every Argument (Guess which side of the border the reporter comes from?) What goes for the sports section applies ...

Mlsericordiam, argumentum ad 109 facts, there will be an obvious distinction between your prudent investments and the reckless s ...

110 How to Wîn Every Argument Christmas coming up and the cold snows of winter about to descend. I ask instead, 'can we afford n ...

Nauseam, argumentum ad 111 market rates if he is dissatisfied with what Scrooge offers. But no; ghosts rise up to torment his em ...

112 How to Win Every Argument Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice; what I tell you three times is true. (Whereas i ...

Nauseam, argumentum ad 113 Advertisers have long been life members of the ad nauseam society. They know that a specious claim ac ...

114 How to Win Every Argument single job is vital to our efficiency. The man we hire to scour the building picking up used paper ...

Non-anticipation 115 Wise though the sages of old probably were, we can no more presume in them the totality of wisdom than we c ...

116 How to Win Every Argument yourself, even though they might simply never have thought of it. Are we to assume that we are cle ...

Novitam, argumentum ad 117 (Their newness did not stop them brutalizing the landscape of cities or the lives of their tenants.) ...

118 How to Win Every Argument was the slogan, with sleepy scenes and pictures of cobwebs on the packets. In Britain, Hovis bread ...

Numeram, argumentum ad 119 possibility that so many others could be mistaken. The argu- mentum ad numeram wrongly equates the nu ...

120 How to Win Every Argument If ideas were decided by numbers, no new ones would ever be admitted. Every new idea starts out as ...

One-sided assessment 121 (And if you asked them, they'd probably say the same about garot- ting and disembowelment. They could b ...

122 How to Win Every Argument children and putting them through college. Then there are the increased insurance premiums... (If ...

Petitio princlpll 123 Life's judgements often call for trade-offs. Those who have made their balance and come down in favour are ...

124 How to Win Every Argument forms. One of its commonest appearances has it using a reworded conclusion as an argument to suppo ...

Petitlo prindpii 125 All arguments which purport to prove the unprovable should be carefully scrutinized for hidden petitios. Ar ...

126 How to Win Every Argument (This looks and sounds like an argument, but it is really just a clever way of saying that we shou ...