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Cover 1 Half-title 3 Series-title 5 Title 7 Copyright 8 Dedication 9 Contents 11 Preface 15 Chapter 1 Introduction to the Study of Fallaciousness 21 1 Strong and Weak Arguments 21 2 Some Historical Conceptions of Fallacy 26 3 Approaching Fallacies 32 4 Why Arguments Go Wrong and How They Fool Us 34 5 Avoiding Fallacious Reasoning 36 6 Summary 36 FURTHER READING 37 Chapter 2 Fallacies of Diversion 39 1 Straw Man 39 Relevance 43 2 Treatments of the Straw Man 45 Critical Questions 46 3 Red Herring 48 4 What Has Gone Wrong in These Examples? Where Does the Fallacy Lie? 50 5 Treatment and Evaluation of the Red Herring 52 Critical Questions 52 6 Irrelevant Conclusion 54 CHAPTER EXERCISES 56 FURTHER READING 60 Chapter 3 Fallacies of Structure 61 1 Invalid Structures 61 2 Fallacies of Distribution 64 3 Propositional Fallacies 69 4 Treatments of Propositional Fallacies 70 Critical Questions 71 Critical Questions 72 5 Formal and Informal Fallacies 72 CHAPTER EXERCISES 74 FURTHER READING 75 Chapter 4 Problems with Language 77 1 Introduction 77 2 Ambiguity and Equivocation 78 3 Treatments of the Fallacy of Equivocation 82 Critical Questions 83 4 Vagueness 84 5 Treatments of Vagueness 87 Critic

Author

Christopher W. Tindale

Language

EN