{"product_id":"an-illustrated-book-of-bad-arguments-paperback","title":"An Illustrated Book Of Bad Arguments (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eFrom the author of An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language,\nhere’s the antidote to fuzzy thinking, with furry animals!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHave you read (or stumbled into) one too many irrational\nonline debates? Ali Almossawi certainly had, so he wrote An Illustrated Book of\nBad Arguments! This handy guide is here to bring the internet age a much-needed\ndose of old-school logic (really old-school, a la Aristotle).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHere are cogent explanations of the straw man fallacy, the\nslippery slope argument, the ad hominem attack, and other common attempts at\nreasoning that actually fall short-plus a beautifully drawn menagerie of\nanimals who (adorably) commit every logical faux pas. Rabbit thinks a strange\nlight in the sky must be a UFO because no one can prove otherwise (the appeal\nto ignorance). And Lion doesn’t believe that gas emissions harm the planet\nbecause, if that were true, he wouldn’t like the result (the argument from\nconsequences).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eOnce you learn to recognize these abuses of reason, they\nstart to crop up everywhere from congressional debate to You Tube comments –\nwhich makes this geek-chic book a must for anyone in the habit of holding\nopinions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e19 full-page illustrations!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eAbout The Author\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\n\nAli Almossaw\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 115%;\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 115%;\"\u003e is an author of books on critical thinking\nand computer science education, and the creator of An\nIllustrated Book of Bad Arguments. He is also a principal engineer at Apple and was formerly a data visualization engineer at Mozilla. He\nhas stated that his day job helps his writing by constraining his time. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PMS PUBLISHERS SERVICES PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45072143450319,"sku":"9786297809380","price":18.42,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_98b1d63a-1eca-40b1-a533-5e025cd59686.jpg?v=1779155306","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/an-illustrated-book-of-bad-arguments-paperback","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}