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

Contents

Acknowledgments viii
Introduction ix

Abusive analogy

Accent

Accident

Affirming the consequent

Amphiboly

Analogical fallcy

Antiquitam, argumentum ad

Apriorism

Baculum, argumentum ad

Bifurcation

Blinding with science

The bogus dilemma

Circulus in probando

The complex question (plurium interrogationum)

Composition

Concealed quantification

Conclusion which denies premises

Contradictory premises

Crumenam, argumentum ad

Cum hoc ergo propter hoc

Damning the alternatives

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