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With good reason: an introduction to informal fallacies
2004, Bedford/St Martin's
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With good reason: an introduction to informal fallacies
2000, Bedford/St. Martin's
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With good reason: an introduction to informal fallacies
2000, Bedford/St. Martin's
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With good reason: an introduction to informal fallacies
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1990, St. Martin's Press
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With good reason: an introduction to informal fallacies
1986, St. Martin's Press
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Table of Contents
1. The nature and scope of logic : Logic as science and art ; Logic as the study of argument ; Arguments and nonarguments ; Eliminating verbiage ; Missing components ; Highlighting suspect elements ; Evaluating arguments: Truth, validity, and soundness ; Deductive and inductive arguments ; Logic and education
2. The medium of language : Language and thought ; Signs and symbols ; Words and things ; The uses of language ; Ambiguity and vagueness ; Verbal disputes ; Definition ; The art of plain talk
3. Fallacies of ambiguity : The fallacy of equivocation ; The fallacy of amphiboly ; The fallacy of accent ; The fallacy of hypostatization ; The fallacies of division and composition
4. Fallacies of presumption : Overlooking the facts ; The fallacy of sweeping generalizations ; The fallacy of hasty generalization ; The fallacy of bifurcation ; Evading the facts ; The fallacy of begging the question ; The fallacy of question-begging epithets ; The fallacy of complex question ; The fallacy of special pleading ; Distorting the facts ; The fallacy of false analogy ; The fallacy of false cause ; The fallacy of slippery slope ; The fallacy of irrelevant thesis
5. Fallacies of relevance : The fallacy of personal attack ; Genetic fallacy ; Abusive ad hominem ; Circumstantial and hominem ; Tu quoque ; Poisoning the well ; The fallacy of mob appeal ; The fallacy of appeal to pity ; The fallacy of appeal to authority ; The authority of the one ; The authority of the many ; The authority of the select few ; The authority of tradition ; The fallacy of appeal to ignorance ; The fallacy of appeal to fear.
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