How to Win Every Argument PDF - Overview
How to Win Every Argument PDF in high quality, This book is written by author Madsen Pirie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing, in 2007. Madsen Pirie is President of the Adam Smith Institute and author of numerous books including Boost Your IQ and The Sherlock Holmes IQ Book. He was formerly Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Logic at Hillsdale College, Michigan, USA. He appears regularly as an expert on CNN and BBC television.
In This How to Win Every Argument book, Madsen Pirie provides a complete guide to using-and indeed abusing-logic in order to win arguments. He identifies with devastating examples all the most common fallacies popularly used in arguments. We all like to think of ourselves as clear-headed and logical-but all readers will find in this book fallacies of which they themselves are guilty.
The author shows you how to simultaneously strengthen your own thinking and identify the weaknesses in other people arguments. And, more mischievously, Pirie also shows how to be deliberately illogical-and get away with it.
How to Win Every Argument
Contents of How to Win Every Argument
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 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
- Definitional retreat
- Denying the antecedent
- Dicto simpliciter
- Division
- Emotional appeals
- Equivocation
- Every schoolboy knows
- The exception that proves the rule
- Exclusive premises
- The existential fallacy
- Ex-post-facto statistics
- Extensional pruning
- False conversion
- False precision
- The gambler’s fallacy
- The genetic fallacy
- Half-concealed qualification
- Hedging
- Hominem (abusive), argumentum ad
- Hominem (circumstantial), argumentum ad
- Ignorantiam, argumentum ad
- Ignorantio elenchi
- Illicit process
- Irrelevant humour
- Lapidem, argumentum ad
- Lazarum, argumentum ad
- Loaded words
- Misericordiam, argumentum ad
- Nauseam, argumentum ad
- Non-anticipation
- Novitam, argumentum ad
- Numeram, argumentum ad
- One-sided assessment
- Petitio principii
- Poisoning the well
- Populum, argumentum ad
- Positive conclusion from negative premise
- Post hoc ergo propter hoc
- Quaternio terminorum
- The red herring
- Refuting the example
- Reification
- The runaway train
- Secundum quid
- Shifting ground
- Shifting the burden of proof
- The slippery slope
- Special pleading
- The straw man
- Temperantiam, argumentum ad
- Thatcher’s blame
- Trivial objections
- Tu quoque
- Unaccepted enthymemes
- The undistributed middle
- Unobtainable perfection
- Verecundiam, argumentum ad
- Wishful thinking
- Classification of fallacies
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