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Attacking Faulty Reasoning: A Practical Guide to Fallacy-free Arguments (Paperback)

by T.Edward Damer (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc; 4th Revised edition edition (14 Jul 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0534551335
  • ISBN-13: 978-0534551339
  • Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 16.1 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The focus of this text is on helping readers recognize when they construct or encounter a good or successful argument of a particular action or belief. This skill is reinforced on every page of the text, from the first three chapters that focus on the criteria for a good argument, through the four major chapters on the fallacies or ways that arguments can go wrong. The emphasis is more upon resolving issues than on pointing out flaws in arguments.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The antidote for contradiction and controversy., 9 May 1999
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This review is from: Attacking Faulty Reasoning (Philosophy) (Paperback)
Damer pulls off a next to impossible task-naming, describing, exampling, and attacking 60 fallacies while structuring them neatly within four criteria of a good argument: relevance, acceptability, sufficient grounds and rebuttal. The last chapter discusses the specifics of "A Code of Conduct for Effective Rational Discussion." I used this test as a key element of my Ph.D. research and continue to use it in my later work. This should be required study for every politician and philosopher. A simpler version should be required study for every middle school and high school student. Discovering what is true would be so much easier with good arguments absence of fallacy. Be the first to rid your "neighborhood" of polemics. Study this book.
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