Nonsense
Published on 27. August 2018
248 pages
978-1-60419-126-4 (ISBN)
Description
Nonsense is the best compilation and study of verbal logical fallacies available anywhere. It is a handbook of the myriad ways we go about being illogical-how we deceive others and ourselves, how we think and argue in ways that are disorderly, disorganized, or irrelevant. Nonsense is also a short course in nonmathematical logical thinking, especially important for students of philosophy and economics. A book of remarkable scholarship, Nonsense is unexpectedly relaxed, informal, and accessible.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
File size
2,02 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-60419-126-4 (9781604191264)
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Robert J. Gula
Nonsense
Red Herrings, Straw Men and Sacred Cows: How We Abuse Logic in Our Everyday Language
Book
10/2018
Axios Press
€12.00
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Person
Robert John Gula (1941-1989) was educated at Colby College and Harvard University and taught a course on logic among many other subjects at the Groton School in Massachusetts. He authored or co-authored sixteen books in addition to Nonsense, including such other titles as Precision: A Handbook of English, Intermediate Latin, and Mythology: Greek and Roman.
Content
- Intro
- Foreword
- One: Everyday Nonsense
- Two: Emotional Language
- Three: Emotional Language: Propaganda
- Four: Emotional Language: Suggestion
- Five: Logical Fallacies
- Six: Irrelevance
- Irrelevant Authority
- Appeal to Numbers
- Confident Speculation
- Seven: Diversion
- The Red Herring
- The Straw Man
- Eight: Ambiguity and Incorrect Inference
- Nine: Confusion and Incorrect Inference
- Inferences
- Ten: Confusion of Cause and Effect
- Eleven: Oversimplification
- Twelve: Erroneous Comparison and Contrast
- Thirteen: Evasion
- Fourteen: More on Arguments
- Fifteen: More on Semantics
- Sixteen: More on the Syllogism
- Seventeen: Final Note
- Summary of Fallacies and Nonsense
- Bibliography
- Ancillary Sources
- Index
- Addendum
