:red herrings, straw men, and sacred cows : how we abuse logic in our everyday language
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Robert J. Gula
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Mount Jackson, VA
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: Axios Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2007.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xii, 245 p. 21 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Everyday nonsense -- Emotional language -- Emotional language: propaganda -- Emotional language: suggestion -- Logical fallacies -- Irrelevance -- Diversion -- Ambiguity and incorrect inference -- Confusion and incorrect inference -- Confusion of cause and effect -- Oversimplification -- Erroneous comparison and contrast -- Evasion -- More on arguments -- More on semantics -- More on the syllogism -- Final note.