Acknowledgments | viii | ||
Introduction | ix | ||
Abusive analogy | 1 | (2) | |
Accent | 3 | (2) | |
Accident | 5 | (2) | |
Affirming the consequent | 7 | (2) | |
Amphiboly | 9 | (2) | |
Analogical fallacy | 11 | (3) | |
Antiquitam, argumentum ad | 14 | (1) | |
Apriorism | 15 | (2) | |
Baculum argumentum ad | 17 | (2) | |
Bifurcation | 19 | (3) | |
Blinding with science | 22 | (2) | |
The bogus dilemma | 24 | (3) | |
Circulus in probando | 27 | (2) | |
The complex question (plurium interrogationum) | 29 | (2) | |
Composition | 31 | (2) | |
Concealed quantification | 33 | (2) | |
Conclusion which denies premises | 35 | (3) | |
Contradictory premises | 38 | (1) | |
Crumenam argumentum ad | 39 | (2) | |
Cum hoc ergo propter hoc | 41 | (3) | |
Damning the alternatives | 44 | (2) | |
Definitional retreat | 46 | (3) | |
Denying the antecedent | 49 | (2) | |
Dicto simpliciter | 51 | (2) | |
Division | 53 | (2) | |
Emotional appeals | 55 | (3) | |
Equivocation | 58 | (2) | |
Every schoolboy knows | 60 | (3) | |
The exception that proves the rule | 63 | (2) | |
Exclusive premises | 65 | (2) | |
The existential fallacy | 67 | (2) | |
Ex-post-facto statistics | 69 | (3) | |
Extensional pruning | 72 | (2) | |
False conversion | 74 | (2) | |
False precision | 76 | (3) | |
The gambler's fallacy | 79 | (3) | |
The genetic fallacy | 82 | (1) | |
Half-concealed qualification | 83 | (3) | |
Hedging | 86 | (2) | |
Hominem (abusive), argumentum | 88 | (2) | |
Hominem (circumstantial), argumentum ad | 90 | (2) | |
Ignorantiam, argumentum ad | 92 | (2) | |
Ignorantio elenchi | 94 | (3) | |
Illicit process | 97 | (2) | |
Irrelevant humour | 99 | (2) | |
Lapidem argumentum ad | 101 | (3) | |
Lazarum argumentum ad | 104 | (2) | |
Loaded words | 106 | (3) | |
Misericordiam argumentum ad | 109 | (2) | |
Nauseam, argumenturn ad | 111 | (3) | |
Non-anticipation | 114 | (2) | |
Novitam, argumentum ad | 116 | (2) | |
Numeram, argumentum ad | 118 | (3) | |
One-sided assessment | 121 | (2) | |
Petitio principii | 123 | (3) | |
Poisoning the well | 126 | (2) | |
Populum, argumentum ad | 128 | (2) | |
Positive conclusion from negative premise | 130 | (1) | |
Post hoc ergo propter hoc | 131 | (2) | |
Quaternio terminorum | 133 | (3) | |
The red herring | 136 | (2) | |
Refuting the example | 138 | (2) | |
Reification | 140 | (2) | |
The runaway train | 142 | (3) | |
Secundum quid | 145 | (2) | |
Shifting ground | 147 | (2) | |
Shifting the burden of proof | 149 | (2) | |
The slippery slope | 151 | (2) | |
Special pleading | 153 | (2) | |
The straw man | 155 | (2) | |
Temperantiam, argumentum ad | 157 | (3) | |
Thatcher's blame | 160 | (2) | |
Trivial objections | 162 | (2) | |
Tu quoque | 164 | (2) | |
Unaccepted enthyrnemes | 166 | (2) | |
The undistributed middle | 168 | (3) | |
Unobtainable perfection | 171 | (2) | |
Verecundiam, argumentum ad | 173 | (3) | |
Wishful thinking | 176 | (3) | |
Classification of fallacies | 179 |
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