How to Win Every Argument

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Madsen Pirie

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Table of contents

- Cover
(Page 1)
- Copyright page (Page 8)
- Contents (Page 9)
- Acknowledgments (Page 12)
- Introduction (Page 13)
- Alphabetical List of Fallacies
(Page 15)
- Abusive analogy (Page 15)
- Accent (Page 17)
- Accident (Page 19)
- Affirming the consequent (Page 21)
- Amphiboly (Page 23)
- Analogical fallcy (Page 25)
- Antiquitam, argumentum ad (Page 28)
- Apriorism (Page 29)
- Baculum, argumentum ad (Page 31)
- Bifurcation (Page 33)
- Blinding with science (Page 36)
- The bogus dilemma (Page 38)
- Circulus in probando (Page 41)
- The complex question (plurium interrogationum) (Page 43)
- Composition (Page 45)
- Concealed quantification (Page 47)
- Conclusion which denies premises (Page 49)
- Contradictory premises (Page 52)
- Crumenam, argumentum ad (Page 53)
- Cum hoc ergo propter hoc (Page 55)
- Damning the alternatives (Page 58)
- Definitional retreat (Page 60)
- Denying the antecedent (Page 63)
- Dicto simpliciter (Page 65)
- Division (Page 67)
- Emotional appeals (Page 69)
- Equivocation (Page 72)
- Every schoolboy knows (Page 74)
- The exception that proves the rule (Page 77)
- Exclusive premises (Page 79)
- The existential fallacy (Page 81)
- Ex-post-facto statistics (Page 83)
- Extensional pruning (Page 86)
- False conversion (Page 88)
- False precision (Page 90)
- The gambler's fallacy (Page 93)
- The genetic fallacy (Page 96)
- Half-concealed qualification (Page 97)
- Hedging (Page 100)
- Hominem (abusive), argumentum ad (Page 102)
- Hominem (circumstantial), argumentum ad (Page 104)
- Ignorantiam, argumentum ad (Page 106)
- Ignorantio elenchi (Page 108)
- Illicit process (Page 111)
- Irrelevant humour (Page 113)
- Lapidem, argumentum ad (Page 115)
- Lazarum, argumentum ad (Page 118)
- Loaded words (Page 120)
- Misericordiam, argumentum ad (Page 123)
- Nauseam, argumentum ad (Page 125)
- Non-anticipation (Page 128)
- Novitam, argumentum ad (Page 130)
- Numeram, argumentum ad (Page 132)
- One-sided assessment (Page 135)
- Petitio principii (Page 137)
- Poisoning the well (Page 140)
- Populum, argumentum ad (Page 142)
- Positive conclusion from negative premise (Page 144)
- Post hoc ergo propter hoc (Page 145)
- Quaternio terminorum (Page 147)
- The red herring (Page 150)
- Refuting the example (Page 152)
- Reification (Page 154)
- The runaway train (Page 156)
- Secundum quid (Page 159)
- Shifting ground (Page 161)
- Shifting the burden of proof (Page 163)
- The slippery slope (Page 165)
- Special pleading (Page 167)
- The straw man (Page 169)
- Temperantiam, argumentum ad (Page 171)
- Thatcher's blame (Page 174)
- Trivial objections (Page 176)
- Tu quoque (Page 178)
- Unaccepted enthymemes (Page 180)
- The undistributed middle (Page 182)
- Unobtainable perfection (Page 185)
- Verecundiam, argumentum ad (Page 187)
- Wishful thinking (Page 190)
- Classification of fallacies (Page 193)
- The formal fallacies (Page 194)
- The informal linguistic fallacies (Page 194)
- The informal fallacies of relevance (omission) (Page 194)
- The informal fallacies of relevance (intrusion) (Page 195)
- The informal fallacies of relevance (presumption) (Page 196)