The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning internet and what birds they attract

and what birds they attract

most exclusively photographed for this book

"-- Globe and Mail

and Interrupted Music

Abbreviations 106

The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning internet and what birds they attractRecently updated, the workbook edition provides students space to record responses to lesson exercises. Learn how to recognize bad reasoning and spot errors in others' logic, and your own. The focus is on practical logic such as fallacies you might encounter in a newspaper. Learn to identify red herrings, circular reasoning, statistical fallacies, and propaganda. Each lesson presents several examples of poor reasoning (often illustrated by cartoons)