Silly rabbit Your argument is ill-founded.
Have you read (or stumbled into) one too many irrational online debates? Ali Almossawi certainly had, so he wrote An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments This handy guide is here to bring the internet age a much-needed dose of old-school logic (really old-school, a la Aristotle).
Here are cogent explanations of the straw man fallacy, the slippery slope argument, the ad hominem attack, and other common attempts at reasoning that actually fall short plus a beautifully drawn menagerie of animals who (adorably) commit every logical faux pas. Rabbit thinks a strange light in the sky must be a UFO because no one can prove otherwise (the appeal to ignorance). And Lion doesn t believe that gas emissions harm the planet because, if that were true, he wouldn t like the result (the argument from consequences).
Once you learn to recognize these abuses of reason, they start to crop up everywhere from congressional debate to YouTube comments which makes this geek-chic book a must for anyone in the habit of holding opinions. It s the antidote to fuzzy thinking, with furry animals "
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Silly rabbit Your argument is ill-founded.
Have you read (or stumbled into) one too many irrational online debates? Ali Almossawi certainly had, so he wrote An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments This handy guide is here to bring the internet age a much-needed dose of old-school logic (really old-school, a la Aristotle).
Here are cogent explanations of the straw man fallacy, the slippery slope argument, the ad hominem attack, and other common attempts at reasoning that actually fall short plus a beautifully drawn menagerie of animals who (adorably) commit every logical faux pas. Rabbit thinks a strange light in the sky must be a UFO because no one can prove otherwise (the appeal to ignorance). And Lion doesn t believe that gas emissions harm the planet because, if that were true, he wouldn t like the result (the argument from consequences).
Once you learn to recognize these abuses of reason, they start to crop up everywhere from congressional debate to YouTube comments which makes this geek-chic book a must for anyone in the habit of holding opinions. It s the antidote to fuzzy thinking, with furry animals "
Imprint | Experiment |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Bad Arguments |
Release date | September 2014 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | August 2014 |
Authors | Ali Almossawi |
Illustrators | Alejandro Giraldo |
Dimensions | 186 x 208 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover - Sewn / Paper over boards |
Pages | 55 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-61519-225-0 |
Barcode | 9781615192250 |
Categories | |
LSN | 1-61519-225-5 |