red herrings, straw men and sacred cows: how we abuse logic in our everyday language
"Nonsense is the . . . compilation and study of verbal logical fallacies. . . . . It is a handbook of the myriad ways we go about being illogical--how we deceive others and ourselves, how we think and argue in ways that are disorderly, disorganized, or irrelevant. Nonsense is also a short course in nonmathematical logical thinking"--Provided by publisher.
