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The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning - Softcover

Bluedorn, Nathaniel; Bluedorn, Hans

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Synopsis

Best-selling text for teaching logical fallacies and introducing logic for over 20 years. Over 200,000 copies sold!

What is a fallacy? A fallacy is an error in logic, a place where someone has made a mistake in thinking. This is a handy book for learning to spot common errors in thinking. It teaches critical thinking in a fun, practical way.

  • Thirty-eight self-teaching lessons with exercises.
  • Ages twelve and up.
  • Peanuts, Dilbert, and Calvin and Hobbes cartoons.
  • Red Herring fallacy.
  • Ad Hominem fallacy.
  • Straw man fallacy.
  • Propaganda techniques.
  • And much more.

"Can learning logic be fun? With The Fallacy Detective, it appears that it can be." -- Tim Challies, curriculum reviewer

"Cartoon, humorous examples, and a very reader-friendly style make this a course students will enjoy." -- Cathy Duffy, homeschool curriculum reviewer

"I really like The Fallacy Detective because it has funny cartoons, silly stories, and teaches you a lot!" -- 12-year-old

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About the Author

In 1999 Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn decided to try to turn their interest in logic into a livelihood by starting FallacyDetective.com. Since then, they have written two books on logic for children and adults, The Fallacy Detective and The Thinking Toolbox.

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