Straight and Crooked Thinking
- Straight and Crooked Thinking
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author = Robert H. Thouless
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language = English
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genre = Logic psychology Education
publisher = Simon and Schuster
media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
pages = 261 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-330-24127-3
release_date = 1932
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"Straight and Crooked Thinking", first published in 1930 and revised in 1953, is a book by Robert H. Thouless which describes flaws in reasoning and argument.
Synopsis
*No. 3. proof by example, biased sample, cherry picking
*No. 6. ignoratio elenchi: "red herring"
*No. 9. false compromise/middle ground
*No. 12. circular cause and consequence
*No. 13. begging the question
*No. 17. equivocation
*No. 18. false dilemma: black and white thinking
*No. 19. continuum fallacy (fallacy of the beard)
*No. 21. ad nauseam: "argumentum ad nauseam" or "argument from repetition" or "argumentum ad infinitum"
*No. 25. style over substance fallacy
*No. 28. appeal to authority
*No. 31. thought-terminating cliché
*No. 36. special pleading
*No. 37. appeal to consequences
*No. 38. appeal to motive
See also
*List of cognitive biases
*List of common misconceptions
*List of fallacies
*List of memory biases
*List of misquotations
*List of topics related to public relations and propaganda
External links
* [http://www.246.dk/38tricks.html Thirty-eight dishonest tricks] - extract from "Straight and Crooked Thinking".
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