Trivium Pursuit - The Fallacy Detective - Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning by
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Trivium Pursuit
New Third Edition -- More Fallacies, More
Cartoons
What is a fallacy? A fallacy is an error in logic - a place where
someone has made a mistake in his thinking.
These are fallacies:
"A cloud is 90% water. A watermelon is 90% water.
Therefore, since a plane can fly through a cloud, a plane can fly
through a watermelon."
"This new book, The Fallacy Detective, must do a good job teaching
logic. It has been on the bestseller list for months."
We wrote this book to meet the needs of Christian parents who want
a do-able text for introducing logic and critical thinking to
their children.
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Fun to use - not dry like a math textbook.
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Self-teaching - not intimidating, starts
students with skills they can use right away.
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Each lesson has exercises for students, with
an answer key at the back.
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Covers logical fallacies and propaganda
techniques. We divided the most common fallacies and
propaganda techniques into thirty-eight lessons. We explain
how you can spot fallacies, and we give exercises to stretch
your abilities for detecting fallacies.
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Geared for ages twelve and older - we suggest
using The Fallacy Detective before advancing onto more
difficult logic programs.
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Includes The Fallacy Detective Game, giving
you and your friends an entertaining way to spot and make up
your own examples of fallacies.
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Christian view of logic. Many critical
thinking texts introduce political correctness. This book does
not.
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Can be used before or after The Thinking
Toolbox
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Cartoons to illustrate the logical fallacies
discussed, including Peanuts, Dilbert, Calvin and Hobbes, and
several original cartoons
This book is for fallacy detectives. We've
designed this book to be a handy-dandy text for learning to spot
the errors in thinking that you meet everyday on the street, in
the newspaper, or on television - or errors you make yourself.
Book Contents:
Introduction: What Is a Fallacy?
The Inquiring Mind
1. Exercise Your Mind
2. Love to Listen
3. Opposing Viewpoints
Avoiding the Question
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
Making Assumptions
13. The Story of Aroup Goupta
14. Assumptions
15. Circular Reasoning
16. Equivocation
17. Loaded Question
18. Slippery Slope
19. Part-to-Whole
20. Whole-to-Part
21. Either-Or
Statistical Fallacies
22. What Is a Generalization?
23. Hasty Generalization
24. What Is an Analogy?
25. Weak Analogy
26. Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
27. Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc in Statistics
28. Proof by Lack of Evidence
Propaganda
29. What Is Propaganda?
30. Appeal to Fear
31. Appeal to Pity
32. Bandwagon
33. Exigency
34. Repetition
35. Transfer
36. Snob Appeal
37. Appeal to Tradition and Appeal to Hi-Tech
38. Find Some Propaganda on Your Own
The Fallacy Detective Game
Answer Key
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