Fallacy Detective
by Nathaniel Bluedorn Author
This workbook edition of The Fallacy Detective now includes spaces for readers to write in their answers to the exercises! Written for ages 12 through adult, readers will learn to recognize the fallacies they see every day, including the Red Herring, Ad Hominem attacks, the Straw Man, loaded questions, equivocation, circular reasoning, either-or, generalizations, analogies, propaganda, special pleading, slippery slope fallacies, and more. Dilbert, Calvin & Hobbes, Peanuts, and original cartoons illustrate many of the fallacies perfectly, and each chapter contains plenty of examples that make each fallacy easy to understand. Exercises and "The Fallacy Detective Game" provide fun ways to really remember what you've learned! 262 pages, softcover. Line-listed answer key included at the back of the book. 2015 Edition. Consumable and non-reproducible.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9780974531571
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 37
- Suggested Grades
- 8th - 12th
- Publisher
- Christian Logic
- Copyright
- 2009
Chapters
- 1 Exercise Your Mind
- 2 Love to Listen
- 3 Opposing Viewpoints
- 4 Red Herring Fallacy
- 5 Recognizing Red Herrings
- 6 Special Pleading
- 7 Ad Hominem Attack
- 8 Genetic Fallacy
- 9 Tu Quoque
- 10 Faulty Appeal to Authority
- 11 Appeal to the People
- 12 Straw Man
- 13 The Story of Aroup Goupta
- 14 Assumptions
- 15 Circular Reasoning
- 16 Equivocation
- 17 Loaded Question
- 18 Slippery Slope
- 19 Part-to-Whole
- 20 Either Or
- 21 What Is a Generalization?
- 22 Hasty Generalization
- 23 What Is an Analogy?
- 24 Weak Analogy
- 25 Post Hoc Propter Ergo Propter Hoc
- 26 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc in Statistics
- 27 Proof by Lack of Evidence
- 28 What Is Propaganda?
- 29 Appeal to Fear
- 30 Appeal to Pity
- 31 Bandwagon
- 32 Exigency
- 33 Repition
- 34 Transfer
- 35 Snob Appeal
- 36 Appeal to Tradition and Appeal to Hi-Tech
- 37 Find Some Propaganda on Your Own
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