Have you read (or stumbled into) one too many irrational online debates? Ali Almossawi certainly had, so he wrote An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments! This handy guide is here to bring the internet age a much-needed dose of old-school logic (really old-school, a la Aristotle).
Here are cogent explanations of the straw man fallacy, the slippery slope argument, the ad hominem attack, and other common attempts at reasoning that actually fall short—plus a beautifully drawn menagerie of animals who (adorably) commit every logical faux pas. Rabbit thinks a strange light in the sky must be a UFO because no one can prove otherwise (the appeal to ignorance). And Lion doesn’t believe that gas emissions harm the planet because, if that were true, he wouldn’t like the result (the argument from consequences).
Once you learn to recognize these abuses of reason, they start to crop up everywhere from congressional debate to YouTube comments—which makes this geek-chic book a must for anyone in the habit of holding opinions.
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I recommend this book whole-heartedly. The title notwithstanding, the book can help you to form reasonable and “good” arguments by avoiding the examples of fallacious reasoning that it provides. If you read it, and learn the hallmarks of a bad argument, you can learn how to avoid them… and how to deal with people who make them. It comes in very handy when arguing with trolls on the Internet, for example.
You do not need to be an expert in the field of logic to benefit from this book. It is short, concise, and to the point. Over the course of 56 pages the author introduces a “bad argument” method, gives an example, and explains why the method is faulty. If you have ever participated in an Internet chat room “discussion” you will recognize all of the bad argument techniques in the book… and now you will know why they are bad and how to avoid them.
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An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments Details
- Author : Ali Almossawi ( Download PDF :
) - Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1615192255
- ISBN-13: 978-1615192250
- Hardcover: 64 pages
- Publisher: The Experiment; ILL edition (September 23, 2014)
- Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches
About the Author
Ali Almossawi holds a Masters in Engineering Systems from MIT and a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He currently lives with his wife and daughter in San Francisco, where he works as a data visualization designer for Mozilla, while continuing to collaborate with his colleagues at the MIT Media Lab. Ali’s work has appeared in publications such as Wired.
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