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

Shifting ground 147 All actors are left-wing subversives. Let me give you a couple of examples... (You then spread over the enti ...

148 How to Win Every Argument source of strength if a party can respond to criticism. Now, with our share of the poll down to 9 ...

Shifting the burden of proof 149 There are muscular exercises which you should practise every day in front of a mirror, and whic ...

150 How to Win Every Argument otherwise. In fact the onus is upon the person who wishes to change the status quo to supply reaso ...

The slippery slope 151 You will need shifting the burden of proof if you intend to foray into the world of metaphysical entities ...

152 How to Win Every Argument slippery-slope argument to suggest that any reform will lead inexorably to unacceptable results. / ...

Special pleading 153 On a slippery slope ruin is reached in stages. The fallacy introduces the irrelevant material of the conseq ...

154 How to Win Every Argument also throw out our own. If we were to receive special treatment, how could we justify withholding ...

The straw man 155 Normally I would object to spitting at public figures, but the threat of global warming is so awful... (As is ...

156 How to Win Every Argument is, in short, a misrepresentation of your opponent's position, created by you for the express purp ...

Temperantlam, argumentum ad 157 It is standard practice at elections to choose the most foolish or ignorant spokesman for the ot ...

158 How to Win Every Argument Englishman's fallacy. The argumentum ad temperantiam suggests that the moderate view is the correc ...

Temperantlam, argumentum ad 159 (He might have added: between truth and falsehood, between vice and virtue, between falling asle ...

160 How to Win Every Argument You will find it useful to invent extreme positions on one side, in order to cast the opposing vie ...

Thatcher's blame 161 class of yuppies flaunted their new-found wealth. She was deemed to be at fault in both cases. The fallacy ...

162 How to Win Every Argument unbelievably tedious and commonplace name which will make the child seem like a faceless conformis ...

Trivial objections 163 demolishing the case which is presented. The fallacy is com- mitted because they are not up to the task t ...

164 How to Win Every Argument When you are searching for trivial objections with which to do down ideas which are difficult to o ...

Tu quoque 165 And now I turn to Mrs Green's charge that I deliberately misled this society over my personal interest in the firm ...

166 How to Win Every Argument particular fallacy. This is why answers to questions about the present or the future invariably be ...