Straight And Crooked Thinking by Robert H. Thouless
A practical guide to recognizing and avoiding logical fallacies and manipulative rhetoric, it catalogs common errors in reasoning—from ambiguity and emotive language to irrelevant appeals, false analogies, and biased statistics—showing how they distort debate and decision-making. It offers clear tests for sound argument, encourages precise definitions and evidence-based claims, and equips readers to analyze propaganda, advertising, and everyday disputes with greater clarity and intellectual integrity.
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- 1930
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