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Book of Bad Arguments (Original Post) jtuck004 Oct 2013 OP
Logical fallacies! CBHagman Oct 2013 #1
Whoever thought that up did good. I love seeing training when it's not couched like training. jtuck004 Oct 2013 #2
k&r (nt) Shampoobra Oct 2013 #3

CBHagman

(16,986 posts)
1. Logical fallacies!
Tue Oct 1, 2013, 10:09 PM
Oct 2013

In recent years I've become fascinated with them, mostly because they are everywhere -- on the op-ed pages, on the floor of the House and Senate, and especially in the comments section of media websites.

That's quite a clever volume you've got there.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
2. Whoever thought that up did good. I love seeing training when it's not couched like training.
Tue Oct 1, 2013, 10:47 PM
Oct 2013

It's amazing, the resistance to learning from people who have had the "advantage" of being schooled in the U.S. When information is presented in another way, they sometimes learn in spite of themselves, so when I find stuff like this I try to pass it around.
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