How to Win Every Argument
The Use and Abuse of Logic
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2007
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (Verlag)
978-0-8264-9894-6 (ISBN)
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (Verlag)
978-0-8264-9894-6 (ISBN)
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Provides a guide to using logic in order to win arguments. This book shows you how to simultaneously strengthen your own thinking and identify the weaknesses in other people's arguments. It also shows how to be deliberately illogical - and get away with it.
In this witty and infectious 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 argument. 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's arguments. And, more mischievously, Pirie also shows how to be deliberately illogical - and get away with it. This book will make you maddeningly smart: your family, friends and opponents will all wish that you had never read it.
In this witty and infectious 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 argument. 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's arguments. And, more mischievously, Pirie also shows how to be deliberately illogical - and get away with it. This book will make you maddeningly smart: your family, friends and opponents will all wish that you had never read it.
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.
79 A-Z entries, including:; Abusive analogy; Blinding with science; The complex question; Damning the alternatives; Exclusive premises; The gambler's fallacy; Hedging; Irrelevant humour; Loaded words; The red herring; Shifting ground; Trivial objections; Wishful thinking.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.9.2007 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik |
ISBN-10 | 0-8264-9894-9 / 0826498949 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8264-9894-6 / 9780826498946 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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