The Fallacy Detective, Recognize Bad Reasoning 4th Edition

This second edition of The Fallacy Detective provides even more fallacies and more fun cartoon illustrations! Readers ages twelve through adult will learn to recognize the fallacious techniques seen in everyday life, including Red Herring, Ad Hominem, Tu Quoque, Straw Man, Loaded Question, Equivocation, Circular Reasoning, Either-Or, Generalization, Analogy, Propaganda and more, including two new fallacies for this 2009 edition: Special Pleading and Slippery Slope.

Original cartoons, along with classic favorites Dilbert, Calvin & Hobbes and Peanuts illustrate many of the fallacies perfectly, while the text provides additional examples. Detailed exercises and “The Fallacy Detective Game” provide fun ways to really remember what you’ve learned! 212 pages, softcover. Answer key included.

A fallacy is a mistake in thinking that people act on or react to. This happens every day. Students in grades 7-12 and adults can learn to easily identify a variety of fallacies by using The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight  Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning Workbook, 4th edition!

This is a fun, easy-to-understand paperback.

The authors use popular cartoons such as Peanuts, Dilbert, and Calvin & Hobbes, dialogues, diagrams, and other illustrations making this a very understandable lesson book.

Now middle and high school kids and families can learn how to avoid common errors in their own reasoning and choose to use valid, constructive logic in communicating.

Chapters include:

• - Avoiding the question
• - Making asuumptions
• - Statistical fallacies
• - Generalization
• - Propaganda
• - In print and conversations
• - in ourselves
• - and more

Includes a hands-on Fallacy Detective Game plus exercises to practice as you learn and a handy answer key.

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• - The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight  Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning Workbook
• - 4th edition, fun, easy-to use, 264-page paperback
• - Learn how to spot common errors in thinking
• - Use constructive logic in communication
• - Features popular comic strips, Fallacy Detective Game, exercises, and answer key
• - Grades 7-12 and adults

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