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

Poisoning the well 127 Of course, there may be those with defective judgement who prefer buses to trains. (There may be those wh ...

128 How to Win Every Argument Only those who are sexually inadequate themselves now advocate single-sex teaching in our schools. ...

Populum, argumentant ad 129 Are we to see the streets of this ancient land of ours given over to strange faces? (The prejudice i ...

130 How to Win Every Argument Your own ad populums will come naturally, since you are basically in support of the little man, th ...

Post hoc ergo propter hoc 131 relationships is concerned with what is not true for one, the deduction must show that the other o ...

132 How to Win Every Argument Although two events might be consecutive, we cannot simply assume that the one would not have occu ...

Quatemlo terminorum 133 fallacies can park at will. Greek historians regularly discussed natural disasters in terms of human act ...

134 How to Win Every Argument instead four separate terms, we cannot validly draw the con- clusion, and the quaternio terminorum ...

Quaternlo terminorum 135 John is the father of Peter, and the father of Peter is the father of Paul, so John is the father of Pa ...

136 How to Win Every Argument Darling, I'm bigger than you are, stronger, and richer; yet I respect you. You stand in the same r ...

The red herring 137 by means of extraneous material, however attractive that new material may be. 'Excuse me, sir. What are you ...

138 How to Win Every Argument 'You never remember my birthday.' 'Did I ever tell you what beautiful eyes you have?' You should n ...

Refuting the example 139 may be many other instances which support the thesis, and which are genuine cases. There is a fine dist ...

140 How to Win Every Argument so, you attack the case, showing how it could not possibly be valid. The case of a family produced ...

Reification 141 Sometimes objects have consequential attributes, in their arrangement, perhaps. We commit reification if we supp ...

142 How to Win Every Argument except that we have agreed to use words in a certain way. If someone brings out the 'essences' beh ...

The runaway train 143 your required destination you cannot leave it, but are compelled to be taken further than you wished. The ...

144 How to Win Every Argument Someone boards a runaway train when they are so concerned about direction that they forget to atte ...

Secundum quid 145 Secundum quid The fallacy of secundum quid is otherwise known as the hasty generalization. Whenever a generali ...

146 How to Win Every Argument fitness of a candidate for foster-parent, for example, it would be prudent to make a judgement on ...