{"product_id":"informal-logical-fallacies-a-brief-guide-revised-edition-9780761872535","title":"Informal Logical Fallacies A Brief Guide Revised","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritical thinking is now needed more than ever. This accessible and engaging book provides the necessary tools to question and challenge the discourse that surrounds uswhether in the media, the classroom, or everyday conversation. Additionally, it offers readers a deeper understanding of the foundations of analytical thought. Informal Logical Fallacies: A Brief Guide is a systematic and concise introduction to more than fifty fallacies, from anthropomorphism and argumentum ad baculum, to reductionism and the slippery slope argument. This revised edition includes updated examples, exercises, and a new chapter on non-Western logical fallacies. With helpful definitions and relevant explanations, the author guides the reader through the realms of fallacious reasoning and deceptive rhetoric. This is an essential guide to philosophical reflection and clear thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacob E. Van Vleet’s book on informal fallacies is an important reminder of what is typically left out in the study of logic that all too often is confined to formal logic, to the study of rules of inference and the abstractions that proceed from the granting of those rules. Informal fallacies are psychologically persuasive and arise within the marketplace, the common world; studying them may enable us to think for ourselves amid our current blather of clichés and tweets. \u003c\/p\u003e -- David Lovekin, Hastings College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: Linguistic Fallacies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: Fallacies of Omission \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: Fallacies of Intrusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four: Fallacies with Built-In Assumptions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: Causal Fallacies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six: Some Non-Western Fallacies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: Valid and Invalid Argument Forms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix I: Exercises\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix II: Aristotle on the Law of Non-Contradiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix III: Bertrand Russell on Truth and Falsehood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlossary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecommended Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hamilton Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037896081751,"sku":"9780761872535","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780761872535.jpg?v=1750938067","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/informal-logical-fallacies-a-brief-guide-revised-edition-9780761872535","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}