42 Fallacies
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42 Fallacies
A fallacy is an error in reasoning. That is, it is a piece of bad logic. Just as it is a good idea to avoid eating bad food, it is also a rather good idea to avoid bad reasoning. Unfortunately, bad reasoning is all too common€"it pours out of the television and infests the web like an army of venomous spiders. Perhaps even worse than the fallacies inflicted from the outside are self-inflicted fallacies. These can lead people to make poor decisions about matters great and small.<br /><br />Fortunately, there is a defense against bad reasoning, namely knowledge. This concise book provides the reader with definitions and examples of forty-two common fallacies€"the knowledge a person needs to defend herself in a world awash in fallacies. This short book is not intended to be a handbook on winning arguments or a text on general logic.<br /><br />The book contains the following fallacies:<br /><br />Ad Hominem<br />Ad Hominem Tu Quoque<br />Appeal to the Consequences of a Belief<br />Appeal to Authority<br />Appeal to Belief<br />Appeal to Common Practice<br />Appeal to Emotion<br />Appeal to Popularity<br />Appeal to Fear<br />Appeal to Flattery<br />Appeal to Novelty<br />Appeal to Pity<br />Appeal to Popularity<br />Appeal to Ridicule<br />Appeal to Spite<br />Appeal to Tradition<br />Begging the Question<br />Biased Generalization<br />Burden of Proof<br />Circumstantial Ad Hominem<br />Fallacy of Composition<br />Confusing Cause and Effect<br />Fallacy of Division<br />False Dilemma<br />Gambler€s Fallacy<br />Genetic Fallacy<br />Guilt by Association<br />Hasty Generalization<br />Ignoring a Common Cause<br />Middle Ground<br />Misleading Vividness<br />Peer Pressure<br />Personal Attack<br />Poisoning the Well<br />Post Hoc<br />Questionable Cause<br />Red Herring<br />Relativist Fallacy<br />Slippery Slope<br />Special Pleading<br />Spotlight<br />Straw Man<br />Two Wrongs Make a Right<br />Two Wrongs Make a Right
