Straight and Crooked Thinking
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Weight 0.141 kg
Dimensions 1.3 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Paperback
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Pages

192
Publisher

Year Published

2011-4-29
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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

1444117181
About The Author

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.

'It is neither a dry nor weighty tome, but is jam-packed with raw rational sense. It will give you techniques for identifying fallacies and false arguments. It will help protect you from the devious subterfuges of politicians and preachers, journalists and jingoists. It is sweet manna from a rational heaven. Thouless describes 38 dishonest tricks that are commonly used in arguments (there may be more). '
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A new edition of a much loved guide to how to think and reason your way logically through difficult and challenging arguments
Table Of Content

: 1. Different ways of using language: 2. Words and facts: 3. The meanings of words: 4. Definition and some of its difficulties: 5. Good and bad definitions: 6. All and some: 7. Some dishonest tricks in argument: 8. Some logical fallacies: 9. Habits of thought: 10. Prejudice: 11. Predigested thinking: 12. Pitfalls in analogy: 13. Oratory and suggestion: 14. Tricks of suggestion: 15. Straight thinking: 16. The future of straight thinking: Appendix 1: Thirty-seven dishonest tricks commonly used in argument, with the methods of overcoming them: Appendix 2: A discussion illustrating crooked thinking: Index

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