Spot Fallacies
Summary
This chapter lists logical fallacies, and how to deal with them. They come down to bad proof, bad conclusion, and a disconnect between bad proof, and conclusion. In this chapter you should know how to recognize fallacies and get away with them if you want to use them because if your audience it is possible it could hurt your ethos.
Facts
- An ability to detect a fallacy helps you protect yourself against; politicians, salespeople, diet books, doctors, and your own children.(Pg.146)
- Mistaking one kind of unit for another is not only called false information but also called unit fallacy(Pg. 151)
- The same thing gets repeated in different words is called tautology