Fallacies and Argument Appraisal presents an introduction to the nature, identification, and causes of fallacious reasoning, along with key questions for evaluation. Drawing from the latest work on fallacies as well as some of the standard ideas that have remained relevant since Aristotle, Christopher Tindale investigates central cases of major fallacies in order to understand what has gone wrong and how this has occurred. Dispensing with the approach that simply assigns labels and brief descriptions of fallacies, Tindale provides fuller treatments that recognize the dialectical and rhetorical contexts in which fallacies arise. This volume analyzes major fallacies through accessible, everyday examples. Critical questions are developed for each fallacy to help the student identify them and provide considered evaluations.
Comprehensive compendium of fallacies, catalogued according to categories of: fallacies of diversion, of structure, of language, ad hominems, misuse of experts, sampling fallacies, correlation and cause, and analogical reasoning. The author provides practical examples of each from real-world scenarios, and list of critical questions to ask in evaluation of possible fallacies
An excellent book introducing you to a select number of logical fallacies acceptable usage of some types of arguments, their improper usage and an excellent way to tell the difference by asking critical questions. Most importantly, there are practice exercises to help with identifying them in a more routine setting. I wonder if the correct answers are posted anywhere online.
参考文献: 1. Elementary Lessons in Logic - Deductive & Inductive, by W. Stanley Jevons 2. Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies, by Do Bennett 3. YouLogicalFallacyIs.com http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/
Nothing ground-breaking here. The book is a simple compendium of a few formal and several informal fallacies, while providing pointers to their detection in discourse.