An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments: Learn the Lost Art of Making Sense (Bad Arguments)

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments: Learn the Lost Art of Making Sense (Bad Arguments)

<p><b>€œA flawless compendium of flaws.€ €"Alice Roberts, PhD, anatomist, writer, and presenter of <i>The Incredible Human Journey</i></b></p><p><b>The antidote to fuzzy thinking, with furry animals!</b></p><p>Have you read (or stumbled into) one too many irrational online debates? Ali Almossawi certainly had, so he wrote <i>An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments</i>! This handy guide is here to bring the internet age a much-needed dose of old-school logic (really old-school, <i>a la</i> Aristotle).</p><p>Here are cogent explanations of the <b><i>straw man</i></b> fallacy, the <i><b>slippery slope</b></i> argument, the <i><b>ad hominem</b></i> attack, and other common attempts at reasoning that actually fall short€"plus a beautifully drawn menagerie of animals who (adorably) commit every logical <i>faux pas</i>. Rabbit thinks a strange light in the sky <i>must</i> be a UFO because no one can prove otherwise (<i><b>the appeal to ignorance</b></i>). And Lion doesn€t believe that gas emissions harm the planet because, if that <i>were</i> true, he wouldn€t like the result (the <i><b>argument from consequences</b></i>).</p><p>Once you learn to recognize these abuses of reason, they start to crop up everywhere from congressional debate to YouTube comments€"which makes this geek-chic book a <i>must</i> for anyone in the habit of holding opinions.</p><br />