How to win every argument : the use and abuse of logic / Madsen Pirie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pirie, Madsen, 1940- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic.

Fallacies (Logic).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury, 2020.

Summary:

"In the second edition of this witty and infectious book, Madsen Pirie builds upon his guide to using - and indeed abusing - logic in order to win arguments. By including new chapters on how to win arguments in writing, in the pub, with a friend, on Facebook and in 140 characters (on Twitter), Pirie provides the complete guide to triumphing in altercations ranging from the everyday to the downright serious"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Abusive analogy

Accent

Accident

Affirming the consequent

Amphiboly

Analogical fallacy

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 humor

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.

Notes:

First published: 2006

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-4742-4529-3

1-4725-2697-X

1-4725-2396-2

OCLC:

928992253