Does the idea of learning logic overwhelm you? This book gives you an easy and practical start to learning logic.
What is a fallacy? A fallacy is an error in logic—a place where someone has made a mistake in his thinking.
This is an example of a fallacy:
“A cloud is 90% water. A watermelon is 90% water. Therefore, since a plane can fly through a cloud, a plane can fly through a watermelon.”
This book is for fallacy detectives. We’ve designed this book to be a handy-dandy text for learning to spot the errors in thinking that you meet everyday on the street, in the newspaper, or on television.
Presented in a simple lesson format, the most common fallacies and propaganda techniques are divided into thirty-six lessons. We explain how you can spot fallacies, and we give exercises to stretch your abilities for detecting fallacies. Each lesson begins with a section for you to read, and ends with exercises for you to answer. A full Answer Key is included at the back of the book.
Includes The Fallacy Detective Game, giving you and your friends an entertaining way to spot and make up your own examples of fallacies.
- Written for ages 13 through Adult
- Self-teaching – do-able for everyday people
- Intended for children and parents to use together
- Focus is on Practical Logic Skills – written in a down to earth, entertaining way
- Christian view of Logic
- Each Lesson ends with Exercises – an Answer Key is supplied.
- Includes The Fallacy Detective Game