Introduction..........i Truth and Deception in the Human Mind..........1 Uncritical Persons (intellectually unskilled thinkers)..........2 Skilled Manipulators (weak-sense critical thinkers)..........4 Fairminded Critical Persons (strong-sense critical thinkers)..........6 The Concept of Fallacies of Thought..........8 Naming Fallacies..........9 Mistakes Versus Fallacies..........11 There Is No Exhaustive List of Fallacies..........12 Faulty Generalizations..........14 Analyzing Generalizations..........18 Post Hoc Generalizations..........22 Analogies and Metaphors..........23 44 Foul Ways to Win an Argument..........25 44 Foul Ways to Win an Argument (chart)..........47 Fallacy Detection: Analyzing a Speech from the Past..........48 Fallacy Detection: Analyzing a Current Presidential Speech..........55 Fallacy Detection: Analyzing a Speech from a Presidential Candidate..........61 Avoid Two Extremes..........65 Conclusion: Fallacies in an Ideal (and in a Real) World..........67
