Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Abusive analogy; Accent; Accident; Affirming the consequent; Amphiboly; The analogical fallcy; Antiquitam, argumentum ad; Apriorism; Baculum, argumentum ad; Bifurcation; Blinding with science; The bogus dilemma; Circulus in probando; The complex question (plurium interrogationum); Composition; Concealed quantification; Conclusion which denies premises. Contradictory premises; Crumenam, argumentum ad; Cum hoc ergo propter hoc; Damining the alternatives; Definitional retreat; Denying the antecedent; Dicto simpliciter; Division; Emotional appeals; Equivocation; Every schoolboy knows; The exception that proves the rule; Exclusive premises; The existential fallacy; Ex post facto statistics; Extensional pruning; False conversion; False precision; The gambler's Fallacy; The genetic Fallacy; Half-concealed qualification; Hedging; Hominem (abusive), argumentum ad; Hominem (circumstantial), argumentum ad; Ignoratio elenchi; Illicit process; Irrelevant humour; Lapidem, argumentum ad; Lazarum, argumentum ad; Loaded words; Misericordiam, argumentum ad; Nauseam, argumentum ad; Non-anticipation; Novitam, argumentum ad; Numeram, argumentum ad; One-sided assessment; Petitio principii; Poisoning the well; Populam, argumentum ad; Positive conclusion from negative premise; Post hoc ergo propter hoc; Quaternio terminorum; The red herring; Refuting the example; Reification; Secundum quid; Shifting ground; Shifting the burden of proof; Special pleading; The straw man; Temperantiam, argumentum ad; Trivial questions; Tu quoque; Unaccepted enthymemes; The undistributed middle; Unobtainable perfection; Verecundiam, argumentum ad; Wishful thinking; Classification of fallacies; Suggested reading.

About the Author

Madsen Pirie is President of the Adam Smith Institute and author of numerous books including Boost Your IQ and The Sherlock Holmes IQ Book. He was formerly Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Logic at Hillsdale College, Michigan.