COMMENT:A primer on fallacious arguments. How they can work, and how we can detect them and thus, it is hoped, deal with them. An entertaining read, and quite helpful from time to time even in research. The 17 forms of fallacious argument discussed are:
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COMMENT:<LI> Affirming the Consequent
COMMENT:<LI> Begging the Question
COMMENT:<LI> Denying the Antecedent
COMMENT:<LI> The But-they-will-never-agree Diversion
COMMENT:<LI> The But- you-can-understand-why Evasion
COMMENT:<LI> The Fallacy of Many Questions
COMMENT:<LI> The Fallacy of Pseudo-refuting Descriptions
COMMENT:<LI> The Fallacy of the Undistributed Middle
COMMENT:<LI> The Genetic Fallacy
COMMENT:<LI> The Logically-black-is-white Slide
COMMENT:<LI> The No-true-Scotsman Move
COMMENT:<LI> The Pathetic Fallacy
COMMENT:<LI> The Sorites (The Heaper)
COMMENT:<LI> The Subject/Motive Shift
COMMENT:<LI> The Truth-is-always-in-the-middle Damper
COMMENT:<LI> The UnAmerican Fallacy
COMMENT:<LI> The Whatever-follows-must-be-the-consequence Fallacy
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DATE:19990629
KEYWORDS:critical-thinking skepticism:philosophy
MISC:127p.
PUBLISHER:Fontana Press (London)
SUBMITNAME:David Stretch
TITLE:Thinking About Thinking (Or do I Sincerely Want to be Right?)