Bad Arguments

<p><b>A timely and accessible guide to 100 of the most infamous logical fallacies in Western philosophy, helping readers avoid and detect false assumptions and faulty reasoning</b> </p><p><i>You¿ll love this book or you¿ll hate it. So, you¿re either with us or against us. And if you¿re against us then you hate books. No true intellectual would hate this book.</i></p><p>Ever decide to avoid a restaurant because of one bad meal? Choose a product because a celebrity endorsed it? Or ignore what a politician says because she¿s not a member of your party? For as long as people have been discussing, conversing, persuading, advocating, proselytizing, pontificating, or otherwise stating their case, their arguments have been vulnerable to false assumptions and faulty reasoning. Drawing upon a long history of logical falsehoods and philosophical flubs, <i>Bad Arguments </i>demonstrates how misguided arguments come to be, and what we can do to detect them in the rhetoric of others and avoid using

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