Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies (Academic Edition)This book is a crash course in effective reasoning, meant to catapult you into a world where you start to see things how they really are, not how you think they are. The focus of this book is on logical fallacies, which loosely defined, are simply errors in reasoning. With the reading of each page, you can make significant improvements in the way you reason and make decisions. Logically Fallacious is one of the most comprehensive collections of logical fallacies with all original examples and easy to understand descriptions, perfect for educators, debaters, or anyone who wants to improve his or her reasoning skills. "Expose an irrational belief, keep a person rational for a day. Expose irrational thinking, keep a person rational for a lifetime." - Bo Bennett This 2021 Edition includes dozens of more logical fallacies with many updated examples. |
Contents
Faulty Comparison | |
Gadarene Swine Fallacy | |
Galileo Fallacy | |
Gamblers Fallacy | |
Genetic Fallacy | |
Gish Gallop | |
Hasty Generalization | |
Having Your Cake | |
Alleged Certainty | |
Alphabet Soup | |
Alternative Advance | |
Amazing Familiarity | |
Ambiguity Fallacy | |
Anonymous Authority | |
Anthropomorphism | |
Appeal to Accomplishment | |
Appeal to Anger | |
Appeal to Authority | |
Appeal to Celebrity | |
Appeal to Closure | |
Appeal to Coincidence | |
Appeal to Common Belief | |
Appeal to Common Folk | |
Appeal to Common Sense | |
Appeal to Complexity | |
Appeal to Consequences | |
Appeal to Definition | |
Appeal to Desperation | |
Appeal to Emotion | |
Appeal to Equality | |
Appeal to Extremes | |
Appeal to Faith | |
Appeal to False Authority | |
Appeal to Fear | |
Appeal to Flattery | |
Appeal to Force | |
Appeal to Heaven | |
Appeal to Intuition | |
Appeal to Loyalty | |
Appeal to Nature | |
Appeal to Normality | |
Appeal to Novelty | |
Appeal to Pity | |
Appeal to Popularity | |
Appeal to Possibility | |
Appeal to Ridicule | |
Appeal to Selfevident Truth | |
Appeal to Spite | |
Appeal to Stupidity | |
Appeal to the Law | |
Appeal to the Moon | |
Appeal to Tradition | |
Appeal to Trust | |
Argument by Emotive Language | |
Argument by Fast Talking | |
Argument by Gibberish | |
Argument by Personal Charm | |
Argument by Pigheadedness | |
Argument by Repetition | |
Argument by Selective Reading | |
Argument from Age | |
Argument from Fallacy | |
Argument from Hearsay | |
Argument from Ignorance | |
Argument from Incredulity | |
Argument from Silence | |
Argument of the Beard | |
Argument to Moderation | |
Argument to the Purse | |
Avoiding the Issue | |
Base Rate Fallacy | |
Begging the Question | |
Biased Sample Fallacy | |
Blind Authority Fallacy | |
Broken Window Fallacy | |
Bulverism | |
Causal Reductionism | |
Cherry Picking | |
Circular Definition | |
Circular Reasoning | |
Commutation of Conditionals | |
Complex Question Fallacy | |
Conflicting Conditions | |
Confusing an Explanation with an Excuse | |
Confusing Currently Unexplained with Unexplainable | |
Conjunction Fallacy | |
Conspiracy Theory | |
Contextomy | |
Deceptive Sharing | |
Definist Fallacy | |
Denying a Conjunct | |
Denying the Antecedent | |
Denying the Correlative | |
Disjunction Fallacy | |
Distinction Without a Difference | |
Double Standard | |
Ecological Fallacy | |
Etymological Fallacy | |
Equivocation | |
Exclusive Premises | |
Existential Fallacy | |
Extended Analogy | |
FacttoFiction Fallacy | |
Failure to Elucidate | |
Fake Precision | |
Fallacy of the Undistributed Middle | |
Fallacy of Composition | |
Fallacy of Division | |
Fallacy of Every and All | |
Fallacy of Four Terms | |
Fallacy of Opposition | |
False Attribution | |
False Balance | |
False Conversion | |
False Dilemma | |
False Effect | |
False Equivalence | |
Fantasy Projection | |
FarFetched Hypothesis | |
Hedging | |
Historians Fallacy | |
Homunculus Fallacy | |
Hot Hand Fallacy | |
Hypnotic Bait and Switch | |
Hypothesis Contrary to Fact | |
Identity Fallacy | |
IfByWhiskey | |
Illicit Contraposition | |
Illicit Major | |
Illicit Minor | |
Illicit Substitution of Identicals | |
Imposter Fallacy | |
Incomplete Comparison | |
Inconsistency | |
Inflation of Conflict | |
Insignificant Cause | |
Jumping to Conclusions | |
Just Because Fallacy | |
Just In Case Fallacy | |
Kettle Logic | |
Least Plausible Hypothesis | |
Limited Depth | |
Limited Scope | |
Logic Chopping | |
Ludic Fallacy | |
Lying with Statistics | |
Magical Thinking | |
McNamara Fallacy | |
Meaningless Question | |
Mind Projection Fallacy | |
Misleading Vividness | |
Missing Data Fallacy | |
MotteandBailey Fallacy | |
Modal Scope Fallacy | |
Moralistic Fallacy | |
Moving the Goalposts | |
Multiple Comparisons Fallacy | |
Naturalistic Fallacy | |
Negating Antecedent and Consequent | |
Negative Conclusion from Affirmative Premises | |
Nirvana Fallacy | |
No True Scotsman | |
Non Sequitur | |
Notable Effort | |
Nutpicking Fallacy | |
Overextended Outrage | |
Oversimplified Cause Fallacy | |
Overwhelming Exception | |
PackageDeal Fallacy | |
Poisoning the Well | |
Political Correctness Fallacy | |
PostDesignation | |
Post Hoc | |
Pragmatic Fallacy | |
Prejudicial Language | |
Proof by Intimidation | |
Proof Surrogate | |
Prosecutors Fallacy | |
Proving NonExistence | |
Psychogenetic Fallacy | |
QuantifierShift Fallacy | |
Quantum Physics Fallacy | |
Questionable Cause | |
Rationalization | |
Red Herring | |
Reductio ad Hitlerum | |
Regression Fallacy | |
Reification | |
Relative Privation | |
Retrogressive Causation | |
Righteousness Fallacy | |
Rights To Ought Fallacy | |
Scapegoating | |
Selfrighteousness Fallacy | |
Selective Attention | |
SelfSealing Argument | |
Shifting of the Burden of Proof | |
Shoehorning | |
Slippery Slope | |
Special Pleading | |
Spiritual Fallacy | |
Spin Doctoring | |
Spotlight Fallacy | |
Statement of Conversion | |
Stereotyping the fallacy | |
Stolen Concept Fallacy | |
Strawman Fallacy | |
Style Over Substance | |
Subjectivist Fallacy | |
Subverted Support | |
SunkCost Fallacy | |
Suppressed Correlative | |
Survivorship Fallacy | |
Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy | |
Tokenism | |
Traitorous Critic Fallacy | |
Two Wrongs Make a Right | |
TypeToken Fallacy | |
Unfalsifiability | |
Unreasonable Inclusion Fallacy | |
Unwarranted Contrast | |
UseMention Error | |
Weak Analogy | |
Whataboutism | |
Willed Ignorance | |
Wishful Thinking | |
PseudoLogical Fallacies | |
Cognitive Biases Effects and Heuristics | |
Techniques for Exposing Fallacious Reasoning | |
Types of Lies | |
Top 25 Most Common Fallacies | |
Practice Identifying Fallacies | |
Questions and Answers | |
About the Author | |
Other editions - View all
Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies ... Phd Bo Bennett No preview available - 2015 |
Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies ... Bo Bennett No preview available - 2012 |
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