An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments: Learn the Lost Art of Making Sense by Ali AlmossawiFrom 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

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