fallacies (logic)

Provides facts, games, and activity ideas inspired by twenty-six of the world's greatest geniuses that are designed to spark curiousity and imagination and to boost intelligence.

In this fully updated and revised edition, coauthors Nicolas Capaldi and Miles Smith take an original approach to teaching critical thinking. By cataloging and outlining for readers tactics on how to develop the skills of deception and manipulation, the authors demonstrate that this is a foolproof way to avoid falling for the fallacious and fuzzy logic of others. They also show how to improve our own deficits in making careful decisions about our word choices, why we hold the opinions that we do, and how we form arguments. Readers will learn to apply these skills to everyday situations, whether debating politics with friends or evaluating the pitch of a persuasive salesman.

Provides a guide, illustrated with animals, on how to properly have an argument.

Argues that the first casualty in a battle for our acceptance of an issue is truth. Warns that we must learn how to cut through the rhetoric, flawed reasoning, and misinformation evident in advertising, talk shows, self-help gurus, and politicians.