“A flawless compendium of flaws.” —Alice Roberts, PhD, anatomist, writer, and presenter of The Incredible Human Journey
The antidote to fuzzy thinking, with furry animals!
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.
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.
我有时候觉得自己是挺有逻辑性的人,毕竟是理科出身的,逻辑推理,在理科学习中是时时要用到的,只有逻辑正确了,才能解出各道题。再加上又喜欢看侦探推理故事,难免会有些强迫症,总要跟着侦探主角一步步地逻辑推理,来找到“真凶”,三番五次以后,陡然觉得自己真掌握了一些...
评分 评分这是一本反面教材。 或者说错题集。 它不像一般逻辑书跟你讲亚里士多德、讲三段论、讲什么形式逻辑演绎法…… 它就是列出了一串普通人最常犯的逻辑错误给你看。 有些错误,如果没有被明确地指摘、分析出来,你可能都意识不到它们原来都是扯淡。 有些错误,你在生活中已经习以...
评分1、Aristotle. On Sophistical Refutations. Trans. W. A. Pickard-Cambridge. (辩谬篇) 2、Avicenna.Avicenna's Treatise on Logic. Trans. and ed. FarhangZabeeh. The Hauge: Nijhoff, 1971. 3、Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 4、Curtis, Gary N. Fa...
评分时隔一年多找来英文版看了一下
评分Logic fallacy 核心概念都在这里了,相当浓缩,一个小时差不多就可以读一遍。
评分有点意思。得反复看才能敏感得起来。要是后面有很多例子和为什么错就更好了。
评分11/14/2016
评分绝对是必读书!修订后的第二版更加严谨精彩!
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