With good reason
Subtitle: an introduction to informal fallacies
By: S. Morris Engel
Edition: Sixth edition.
Publisher: Bedford/St Martin's
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781457695957
Copyright date: 2000
Subjects: Fallacies (Logic); Logic
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The nature and scope of logic : Logic as science and art ; Logic as the study of argument ; Arguments and nonarguments ; Eliminating verbiage ; Missing components ; Highlighting suspect elements ; Evaluating arguments: Truth, validity, and soundness ; Deductive and inductive arguments ; Logic and education; title: 2. The medium of language : Language and thought ; Signs and symbols ; Words and things ; The uses of language ; Ambiguity and vagueness ; Verbal disputes ; Definition ; The art of plain talk; title: 3. Fallacies of ambiguity : The fallacy of equivocation ; The fallacy of amphiboly ; The fallacy of accent ; The fallacy of hypostatization ; The fallacies of division and composition; title: 4. Fallacies of presumption : Overlooking the facts ; The fallacy of sweeping generalizations ; The fallacy of hasty generalization ; The fallacy of bifurcation ; Evading the facts ; The fallacy of begging the question ; The fallacy of question-begging epithets ; The fallacy of complex question ; The fallacy of special pleading ; Distorting the facts ; The fallacy of false analogy ; The fallacy of false cause ; The fallacy of slippery slope ; The fallacy of irrelevant thesis; title: 5. Fallacies of relevance : The fallacy of personal attack ; Genetic fallacy ; Abusive ad hominem ; Circumstantial and hominem ; Tu quoque ; Poisoning the well ; The fallacy of mob appeal ; The fallacy of appeal to pity ; The fallacy of appeal to authority ; The authority of the one ; The authority of the many ; The authority of the select few ; The authority of tradition ; The fallacy of appeal to ignorance ; The fallacy of appeal to fear.