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March 23, 2004
The Art Of Deception by Nicolas Capaldi
An Introduction to Critical Thinking: How to: Win an Argument, Defend a Case, Recognize a Fallacy, See Through a Deception
A witty and entertaining tutorial on the art of informal logic. The reader is taught to recognize when logic is being abused by being shown how to win arguments by abuising the rules of informal logic.
You are introduced to all of the logical fallacies you may have intuited but previously never had a name for, and how they can unfiarly be used to win arguments. In so doing you learn how to conduct fair arguments and to avoid the fallacies yourself. Every high school studentb and undergrad should be given a copy to study, certainly everyone who has ever been in an argument.
About the author: Ian Woolf lives in Sydney, has a degree in Applied Physics, worked as a solar astronomer, software engineer, systems programmer, webmaster, Cisco CCNA tutor, Computational Theory lecturer, and subject coordinator; while changing his career to professional writing and broadcasting. Listen to Ian on the Discovery science show on radio 2SER 107.3Fm Mondays at 9am in Sydney or streaming audio on www.2ser.com, or listen to the Discovery sound archives.
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