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Nonsense: Red Herrings, Straw Men and Sacred Cows: How We Abuse Logic in Our Everyday Language
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I used to debate in college and recollect many a common place logical fallacy; although, in the course of the last year I have found myself going online more and more in order to reread the various forms in which "nonsense" takes in the public square. This caused me to pick up three non-textbook works on the subject last week. Even though the late Mr. ... »
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The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation
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This is an academic books that has some real-world lessons--how do you argue and make a point effectively? I first read this book in college and continue to reference it.
Perelman catalogs several hundred different types of arguments with tons of examples. In fact, the examples are staggering and worth the price of the book.
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The Uses of Argument
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Toulmin presents a highly utilitarian approach to the construction of real arguments for real people. This is not Copi's classic formal logic text. This is applied reasoning, as timely now as when authored. [A current standard body effort to establish reasoning templates for computer software assurance cases relies heavily on Toulmin.] No syllogisms, e... »
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Paradoxes
I read this book and William Poundstone's "Labyrinths of Reason" at about the same time and found each to compliment the other very nicely. I strongly rec... »
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Introduction to Logic
I read this book in early 1980.Because of my background in mathematics, I read the language and deduction portion, of my own in just few days.Earlier I ha... »
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Game Theory: 5 Questions
The most important facts about this book are (a) it is not for beginners, or even for those who apply game theory but do not care about theory in itself; ... »
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Hegel's Science of Logic
In the beginning of "The Doctrine of the Notion" find we "The relation of substance resulted from the nature of essence;" The example for the relation o... »
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Critical Thinking
Shamefully, most critical thinking textbooks are not particularly logical. They present mostly grab-bags of rules and fallacies linked together more by s... »
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