Nonsense: red herrings, straw men and sacred cows how we abuse logic in our everyday language
"Nonsense is the best compilation and study of verbal logical fallacies available anywhere. It is a handbook of the myriad ways we go about being illogical--how we deceive others and ourselves, how we think and argue in ways that are disorderly, disorganized, or irrelevant. Nonsense is also a s...
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Edinburg, VA
Axios
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
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Persuasion (Psychology)
B Influence (Psychology) B Fallacies (Logic) |
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| 500 | |a "First published by Stein and Day in 1979. In the Stein and Day edition, the work principally consisted of a handbook of verbal logic, but also contained some introductory and other material of a more popular and ephemeral nature, developed by the author at the request of the publisher. This edition contains everything germane to the author's original concept of a timeless handbook of verbal logic | ||
| 500 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 520 | |a "Nonsense is the best compilation and study of verbal logical fallacies available anywhere. It is a handbook of the myriad ways we go about being illogical--how we deceive others and ourselves, how we think and argue in ways that are disorderly, disorganized, or irrelevant. Nonsense is also a short course in nonmathematical logical thinking, especially important for students of philosophy and economics. A book of remarkable scholarship, Nonsense is unexpectedly relaxed, informal, and accessible"-- | ||
| 520 | |a Everyday nonsense -- Emotional language -- Emotional language : propaganda -- Emotional language : suggestion -- Logical fallacies -- Irrelevance -- Diversion -- Ambiguity and incorrect inference -- Confusion and incorrect inference -- Confusion of cause and effect -- Oversimplification -- Erroneous comparison and contrast -- Evasion -- More on arguments -- More on semantics -- More on the syllogism -- Final note | ||
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