[0-340-52710-2] 1990. (Trade paperback) Very good. 150pp. Tables, diagrams, appendices. There is a previous owner's name on the inside cover. "This practical book by an eminent psychology shows you how to think clearly and avoid muddled reasoning. It exposes many tricks that are frequently used in argument, speeches and writing and shows how the use of emotionally toned words can obscure facts". (Ideas, Arguments, Debate, Emotions, Ideas, Language, Psychology, Reasoning).

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Title

Straight and Crooked Thinking

Publisher

Hodder & Stoughton, Headway

ISBN 10

0340527102

ISBN 13

9780340527108

Binding

Soft cover

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Philosophy

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An introduction to logical thinking and the tricks of argument, with 37 demonstrations of illogical and crooked thinking, and how they may be overcome by the use of straight thought.

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Born in 1894, Robert Thouless was a psychologist. He was Head of the Department of Psychology in Glasgow until 1938, after which he became Reader and Reader Emeritus at Cambridge. He specialised in logic, rationality and the study of responses to the paranormal and wrote several titles in addition to this one. He died in 1984.

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