[ Home ] ARGUMENTATION ANALYSIS

BASIC FALLACIES OF ARGUMENTATION
Language	Evidence	Reasoning
Ambiguity Vagueness Equivocation Obscuration	Repeated assertion Nonrepresentative instance Insufficient instances Invalid statistical measure Unreliable source	Straw arguments Begging the question Circularity Non sequitur Appeal to ignorance Appeal to popular prejudice Appeal to tradition Ad hominem Oversimplification Hasty generalization Post hoc Faulty comparison
Makau, Marty. Cooperative Argumentation: A model for Deliberative Community (2001 Waveland Press, Prospect Heights, Illinois) ISBN:1-57766-139-7

BILL PRESS'S TEN ESSENTIAL SPINS		LOGIC OF DECEPTION
The Happy Face Boy Scout/Girl Scout Twightlight Zone (Bizarro World) Blame it on my youth The Vast Conspiracy	It Depends on the definition The Free Lunch The Statistics The Victim Don't Believe A Word I Say (Downward Spiral)	Hiding Showing Eight Ways to Deceive techniques of Interrogation Chain-o-Lies Catching Liars
Press, Bill. Spin This: All the ways we don't tell the truth. 2001 ISBN: 0-7434-4267-9 Nyberg, David. The Varnished Truth: truth telling and deceiving in ordinary life. 1993 University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 0-226-61051-9

SPIN ZONE	TRUTH ZONE	BRAIN ZONE
Spin	Truth	brain