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Nonsense: A Handbook of Logical Fallacies Nonsense: A Handbook of Logical Fallacies Robert J. Gula Axios Press Axios Press PO Box 118 Mount Jackson, VA 22842 888-542-9467 [email protected] NONSENSE: A HanpBook OF Locicat Fattacies © 2002 by Axios Institute. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations used in critical articles and reviews First published by Stein and Day in 1979. In the Stein and Day edition, the work principally consisted of a handbook of verbal logic, but also con- tained some introductory and other material of a more popular and ephemeral nature, developed by the author at the request of the publisher. This edition contains everything germane to the author’s original concept of a timeless handbook of verbal logic. BOOK AND COVER DESIGN BY NICHOLAS VITTUM Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 00-111842 ISBN: 0966190858 CONTENTS Foreword One: Everyday Nonsense Two: Emotional Language Three: Emotional Language: Propaganda Four: Emotional Language: Suggestion Five: Logical Fallacies Six: Irrelevance Seven: Diversion Eight: Ambiguity and Incorrect Inference Nine: Confusion and Incorrect Inference Ten: Confusion of Cause and Effect Eleven: Oversimplification Twelve: Erroneous Comparison and Contrast Thirteen: Evasion Fourteen: More on Arguments Fifteen: More on Semantics Sixteen: More on the Syllogism Seventeen: Final Notes Summary of Fallacies and Nonsense Bibliography Index Foreword Anyone who met Robert John Gula in his relatively short life of forty-seven years, a life prematurely cut — short by pancreatic cancer, was immediately impressed: the energy, the piercing eyes, the clarity and brevity with which he spoke, the athletic form, the mass of swept-aside but rarely tousled sandy brown and gray hair, the sometimes impish sense of humor, the complete concentration with which he listened, really listened, to others, the sparkling mind. Here was someone who set track records as a youth, who loved dogs and children, who played the piano at a concert level with special enthusiasm for Franz Liszt, but who also wrote or co-wrote seventeen books on __ subjects ranging from Mythology: Greek and Roman to Precision: A Reference Handbook for Writers, and who also taught Latin, Greek, algebra, geometry, chemistry, English composition, and, most famously, logic, in addition to serving as Director of Studies, at the Groton School, one of the best secondary schools in America. In a listing in Contemporary Authors, Bob Gula described why he wrote his last book, a handbook of verbal logic.
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