The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning - Softcover

Nathaniel Bluedorn; Hans Bluedorn

 
9780974531533: The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0974531537 ISBN 13: 9780974531533
Verlag: Christian Logic, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

2009 Edition: More Fallacies, More Cartoons.

What is a fallacy? A fallacy is an error in logic -- a place where someone has made a mistake in his thinking.

A cloud is 90% water. A watermelon is 90% water. Therefore, since a plane can fly through a cloud, a plane can fly through a watermelon.

This is an easy book for learning to spot common errors in reasoning.

For ages twelve through adult.

Fun to use -- learn skills you can use right away.

Exercises with answer key.

Covers logical fallacies and propaganda techniques.

Peanuts, Dilbert, and Calvin and Hobbes cartoons.

Includes The Fallacy Detective Game.

2009 Edition introduces the special pleading and slippery slope fallacies and includes many new illustrations.

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Verlag
Christian Logic
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0974531537
ISBN 13 
9780974531533
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
3
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