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The Amazing Dr. Ransom’s Bestiary of Adorable Fallacies
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Stymied and stumped by arguments that wrap around you like a web of mystification? The Amazing Dr. Ransom’s Bestiary of Adorable Fallacies is here to help!
This Field Guide for Clear Thinkers is filled with illustrations, descriptions, exercises, and analysis to help you identify and avoid fallacies you might encounter in everyday life. Describing fifty informal fallacies organized by context— fallacies of distraction, ambiguity, form, and “millennial fallacies”— each is described as a (adorable yet venomous) creature one might encounter in the wild, complete with illustration and fantastical description.
This book is perfect for supplementing any high school or college logic curriculum . . . or as an independent read for adults who want to learn more about logic! Each fallacy is followed by discussion questions and exercises; a line-listed answer key and both one and two-semester schedules are included in the back of the book.
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The Amazing Dr. Ransom’s Bestiary of Adorable Fallacies
A Field Guide for Clear Thinkers
Stymied and stumped by arguments that wrap around you like a web of mystification? The Amazing Dr. Ransom’s Bestiary of Adorable Fallacies is here to help!
This Field Guide for Clear Thinkers is filled with illustrations, descriptions, exercises, and analysis to help you identify and avoid fallacies you might encounter in everyday life. Describing fifty informal fallacies organized by context— fallacies of distraction, ambiguity, form, and “millennial fallacies”— each is described as a (adorable yet venomous) creature one might encounter in the wild, complete with illustration and fantastical description.
This book is perfect for supplementing any high school or college logic curriculum . . . or as an independent read for adults who want to learn more about logic! Each fallacy is followed by discussion questions and exercises; a line-listed answer key and both one and two-semester schedules are included in the back of the book.
About the Authors
The Amazing Dr. Ransom is an adventurer with two D.Phils from Oxford, in Archaeology and Applied Crypozoology) and has spent his preternaturally long life exploring the seven continents and dodging assorted weaponry.
Douglas Wilson has served for over 30 years as pastor of Christ’s Church, Moscow, Idaho. He is the author of more than 50 books and has battled with Christopher Hitchens, Andrew Sullivan, and several angry mobs of the intelligentsia.
N. D. Wilson is an author and Fellow of Literature at New Saint Andrews College. He beats words into plowshares and very pointy swords, to employ them on cultural elites and fresh-faced students.