How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic
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In this witty and communicable book, Madsen Pirie provides a perfect guide to using – and indeed abusing – logic in order to win opinion. He identifies with devastating examples all the most common fallacies popularly used in argument. We all like to reflect of ourselves as clear-headed and logical – but all readers will find in this book fallacies of which they themselves are guilty. The leader shows you how to simultaneously strengthen your own thinking and identify the weaknesses in additional people’s opinion. And, more mischievously, Pirie also shows how to be deliberately illogical – and get away with it. This book will make you maddeningly smart: your family tree, friends and opponents will all wish that you had never read it.
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Maybe it’s the authors style of writing, or that I haven’t been to college, when I was reading the book, I thought I was reading a long introduction until 20 pages later I checked and realized I was already reading the book, it seemed to have no begining and no end, I went back to the begining to see if there was a guide to reading the book, but there was non, the only indication you get as a new topic is the bold prints. The leader tries to clarify fallacies in a very text book way and then when he gives an example you don’t even know its an example, then he puts what I guess is jokes in parentasis but your not even sure what it is just more confusion. I have read Nonsense by Robert J. Gula this is a book that puts it unadorned and simple I know what a strawman, red herrings is from this book but when I read from “how to win an argument” i just can’t comprehend the meaning, the logic, the examples, nor how to abuse of the logic.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
A dusty alphabetized list of rhetorical devices. Might be nice if you are taking a course in speechifying, but additional than that, bring your No-Doz.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Well written, simple to read and witty.
Not as accurate neither as scientific or profound as Nonsense, a handbook of logical fallacies.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Although the leader painstakingly covers use & abuse of logic to fit one’s agenda, he does not pass up the opportunity to once-in-a-while bash conservatives and religious groups by claiming that certain falacies are used by these groups that he rumor has it that has a bias against.
If you’re going to specifically attribute some falacy use to conservatives or religious groups, you ought to also link additional falsehoods to the liberal left, and athiest groups.
This way, at least his presentation would be balanced.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This book has been written nearly in textbook format. All contents are dry and straight forwards. Also, though the leader clarifies the different types of opinion, it seems that he does not teach you how to use these efficiently. All in all, it’s a dry toast book… not highly recommended.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5