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Author Almossawi, Ali, author.

Title An illustrated book of bad arguments / Ali Almossawi ; illustrations by Alejandro Giraldo.

Publication Info. New York : The Experiment, [2014]

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  168 Al68i 2014    ---  Available
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Edition Revised and updated second edition.
Description 55 pages : illustrations ; 19 x 21 cm
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Note "Originally published by the author in 2013 at BookofBadArguments.com, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 53-54).
Contents Who is this book for? -- Preface -- Logical fallacies -- Argument from consequences -- Straw man -- Appeal to irrelevant authority -- Equivocation -- False dilemma -- Not a cause for a cause -- Appeal to fear -- Hasty generalization -- Appeal to ignorance -- No true Scotsman -- Genetic fallacy -- Guilt by association -- Affirming the consequent -- Appeal to hypocrisy -- Slippery slope -- Appeal to the bandwagon -- Ad hominem -- Circular reasoning -- Composition and division.
Summary Presents an illustrated look at several philosophical arguments including the slippery slope, ad hominem, appeal to ignorance, and argument from consequences debates.
Subject Reasoning.
Fallacies (Logic)
Logic.
Fallacies (Logic) (OCoLC)fst00920044
Logic. (OCoLC)fst01002014
Reasoning. (OCoLC)fst01091282
Reasoning.
Logic.
Added Author Giraldo, Alejandro, illustrator.
ISBN 9781615192250 (hardback)
1615192255 (hardback)

 
    
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