Fallacies And Pitfalls Of Language
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Author | : S. Morris Engel |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2012-07-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0486157431 |
As S. Morris Engel alerts us in this eye-opening book, we risk falling into potentially harmful language traps every moment. Not just the occasional malapropism or grammatical faux pas, but a more sinister kind — distortions of meaning that would persuade us to believe something that may not be true. Sometimes these language traps are set for us deliberately by politicians, advertisers, journalists, lawyers or other professional persuaders. Sometimes they are set inadvertently by our friends, our loved ones — even ourselves. This work explains how and why these fallacies work, and how we may suffer the consequences when they do. Day after day we listen to government newspeak (our troops are called "peace-keeping forces"), exaggerated advertising claims from "leading authorities," twisted logic and misleading propaganda. We are treated to more and more euphemisms (slums are called "substandard housing"; dogcatchers, "animal welfare officers"). We encounter innumerable ambiguities ("I wish you all the good fortune you deserve") — and indulge in a few ourselves. The author wittily explores this verbal minefield, and tells us how to spot a language trap and how to avoid falling in. The book is not only a useful manual of verbal self-defense, it's an engrossing study of the nature of language and the subtle ways in which it operates. It will intrigue anyone interested in words, language, and the dynamics of modern culture.
Author | : J. D. Camorlinga |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2015-10-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780692561393 |
This handy book presents logical fallacies with easy to understand language and engaging illustrated examples. It's the perfect reference guide for families!What IS a logical fallacy? Simply put, it's an error (innocent or not) in reasoning. Learning to identify and avoid logical pitfalls is an important part of learning to think and communicate well.
Author | : Ionela Tatiana Racolţa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9786066713344 |
Author | : David A. Patterson |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 920 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0123747503 |
Rev. ed. of: Computer organization and design / John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson. 1998.
Author | : Jacob E. Van Vleet |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2021-01-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 076187254X |
Critical thinking is now needed more than ever. This accessible and engaging book provides the necessary tools to question and challenge the discourse that surrounds us—whether in the media, the classroom, or everyday conversation. Additionally, it offers readers a deeper understanding of the foundations of analytical thought. Informal Logical Fallacies: A Brief Guide is a systematic and concise introduction to more than fifty fallacies, from anthropomorphism and argumentum ad baculum, to reductionism and the slippery slope argument. This revised edition includes updated examples, exercises, and a new chapter on non-Western logical fallacies. With helpful definitions and relevant explanations, the author guides the reader through the realms of fallacious reasoning and deceptive rhetoric. This is an essential guide to philosophical reflection and clear thinking.
Author | : Ali Almossawi |
Publisher | : The Experiment, LLC |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2014-09-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1615192263 |
“This short book makes you smarter than 99% of the population. . . . The concepts within it will increase your company’s ‘organizational intelligence.’. . . It’s more than just a must-read, it’s a ‘have-to-read-or-you’re-fired’ book.”—Geoffrey James, INC.com From the author of An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language, here’s the antidote to fuzzy thinking, with furry animals! Have you read (or stumbled into) one too many irrational online debates? Ali Almossawi certainly had, so he wrote An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments! This handy guide is here to bring the internet age a much-needed dose of old-school logic (really old-school, a la Aristotle). Here are cogent explanations of the straw man fallacy, the slippery slope argument, the ad hominem attack, and other common attempts at reasoning that actually fall short—plus a beautifully drawn menagerie of animals who (adorably) commit every logical faux pas. Rabbit thinks a strange light in the sky must be a UFO because no one can prove otherwise (the appeal to ignorance). And Lion doesn’t believe that gas emissions harm the planet because, if that were true, he wouldn’t like the result (the argument from consequences). Once you learn to recognize these abuses of reason, they start to crop up everywhere from congressional debate to YouTube comments—which makes this geek-chic book a must for anyone in the habit of holding opinions.
Author | : Ernest Weekley |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2013-03-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0486122875 |
The compiler of this dictionary of word and phrase origins and history was not only a linguist and a philologist but also a man of culture and wit. When he turned his attention, therefore, to the creation of an etymological dictionary for both specialists and non-specialists, the result was easily the finest such work ever prepared. Weekley's Dictionary is a work of thorough scholarship. It contains one of the largest lists of words and phrases to be found in any singly etymological dictionary — and considerably more material than in the standard concise edition, with fuller quotes and historical discussions. Included are most of the more common words used in English as well as slang, archaic words, such formulas as "I. O. U.," made-up words (such as Carroll's "Jabberwock"), words coined from proper nouns, and so on. In each case, roots in Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, Greek or Latin, Old and modern French, Anglo-Indian, etc., are identified; in hundreds of cases, especially odd or amusing listings, earliest known usage is mentioned and sense is indicated in quotations from Dickens, Shakespeare, Chaucer, "Piers Plowman," Defoe, O. Henry, Spenser, Byron, Kipling, and so on, and from contemporary newspapers, translations of the Bible, and dozens of foreign-language authors.
Author | : Lope de Vega |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780486420929 |
"Fuenteovejuna", de Lope de Vega. Lope de Vega fue uno de los más importantes poetas y dramaturgos del Siglo de Oro español (1562-1635).
Author | : Juan Ramón Jiménez |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780486435657 |
Presents a picture of life in the town of Moguer, in Andalusia, Spain, as seen therough the eyes of a wondering poet and his faithful donkey.
Author | : E. T. A. Hoffmann |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780486426969 |
The 4 tales of this collection embody their author's skills as a humorist and a master of irony as well as his visions of supernatural elements amid ordinary settings. Contents include "Rat Krespel," "Die Bergwerke zu Falun," "Das Fräulein von Scuderi" and "Des Vetters Eckfenster," Hoffmann's last work and the pinnacle of his literary achievements.