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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