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The Fallacy Detective

by Hans Bluedorn Author, Nathaniel Bluedorn Author

This book is designed to be a handy text for learning to spot common errors in reasoning.

Additional Details

Resource Type
Book
ISBN
0-9745315-0-2
Print Status
In Print
Lessons
36
Pages
233
Suggested Grades
8th - 12th
Publisher
Christian Logic
Copyright
2003
Written
2002

Lessons

  • 1 Exercise Your Mind
  • 2 Love to Listen
  • 3 Opposing Viewpoints
  • 4 Red Herring Fallacy
  • 5 Recognizing Red Herrings
  • 6 Ad Hominem Attack
  • 7 Genetic Fallacy
  • 8 Tu Quoque
  • 9 Faulty Appeal to Authority
  • 10 Appeal to the People
  • 11 Straw Man
  • 12 The Story of Aroup Goupta
  • 13 Assumptions
  • 14 Circular Reasoning
  • 15 Equivocation
  • 16 Loaded Questions
  • 17 Part-to-Whole
  • 18 Whole-to-Part
  • 19 Either-Or
  • 20 What is a Generalization?
  • 21 Hasty Generalization
  • 22 What is an Analogy?
  • 23 Weak Analogy
  • 24 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
  • 25 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc in Statistics
  • 26 Proof by Lack of Evidence
  • 27 What is Propaganda?
  • 28 Appeal to Fear
  • 29 Appeal to Pity
  • 30 Bandwagon
  • 31 Exigency
  • 32 Repetition
  • 33 Transfer
  • 34 Snob Appeal
  • 35 Appeal to Tradition and Appeal to Hi-tech
  • 36 Find Some Propaganda on Your Own

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