How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic
Author: Madsen Pirie
Date: 2007-01-08 17:44:34+00:00
Keywords: Logical Fallacies; critical thinking; logic; logical fallacies; rhetoric
Description: Logical Fallacies

Table of Contents

Cover
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Alphabetical List of Fallacies

- 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

- The formal fallacies

- The informal linguistic fallacies

- The informal fallacies of relevance (omission)

- The informal fallacies of relevance (intrusion)

- The informal fallacies of relevance (presumption)