The Thinker's Guide to Fallacies
eBook - ePub

The Thinker's Guide to Fallacies

The Art of Mental Trickery and Manipulation

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eBook - ePub

The Thinker's Guide to Fallacies

The Art of Mental Trickery and Manipulation

About this book

The Thinker's Guide to Fallacies introduces the concept of mental trickery and shows readers how to discern and see through forty-four different types of fallacies. Focusing on how human self-deception and manipulation lie behind fallacies, this guide builds reasoning skills and promotes fairminded, logical thought, discussions, and debate.

As part of the Thinker's Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fair-minded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.

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Table of contents

  1. Truth and Deception in the Human Mind
  2. Uncritical Persons (intellectually unskilled thinkers)
  3. Skilled Manipulators (weak-sense critical thinkers)
  4. Critical Persons (strong-sense critical thinkers)
  5. The Concept of Fallacies of Thought
  6. Naming Fallacies
  7. Mistakes Versus Fallacies
  8. There is No Exhaustive List of Fallacies
  9. Faulty Generalizations
  10. Analyzing Generalizations
  11. Post Hoc Generalizations
  12. Analogies and Metaphors
  13. 44 Foul Ways to Win an Argument
  14. 44 Foul Ways to Win an Argument (Chart)
  15. Fallacy Detection: Analyzing a Speech from the Past
  16. Fallacy Detection: Analyzing a Current Presidential Speech
  17. Fallacy Detection: Analyzing a Speech from a Presidential Candidate
  18. Avoid Two Extremes:
  19. Conclusion: Fallacies in An Ideal (And in a Real) World