A timely and accessible guide to 100 of the most infamous logical fallacies in Western philosophy, helping readers avoid and detect false assumptions and faulty reasoning

You’ll love this book or you’ll hate it. So, you’re either with us or against us. And if you’re against us then you hate books. No true intellectual would hate this book.

Ever decide to avoid a restaurant because of one bad meal? Choose a product because a celebrity endorsed it? Or ignore what a politician says because she’s not a member of your party? For as long as people have been discussing, conversing, persuading, advocating, proselytizing, pontificating, or otherwise stating their case, their arguments have been vulnerable to false assumptions and faulty reasoning. Drawing upon a long history of logical falsehoods and philosophical flubs, Bad Arguments demonstrates how misguided arguments come to be, and what we can do to detect them in the rhetoric of others and avoid using them ourselves.

Fallacies—or conclusions that don’t follow from their premise—are at the root of most bad arguments, but it can be easy to stumble into a fallacy without realizing it. In this clear and concise guide to good arguments gone bad, Robert Arp, Steven Barbone, and Michael Bruce take readers through 100 of the most infamous fallacies in Western philosophy, identifying the most common missteps, pitfalls, and dead-ends of arguments gone awry. Whether an instance of sunk costs, is ought, affirming the consequent, moving the goal post, begging the question, or the ever-popular slippery slope, each fallacy engages with examples drawn from contemporary politics, economics, media, and popular culture. Further diagrams and tables supplement entries and contextualize common errors in logical reasoning.

At a time in our world when it is crucial to be able to identify and challenge rhetorical half-truths, this bookhelps readers to better understand flawed argumentation and develop logical literacy. Unrivaled in its breadth of coverage and a worthy companion to its sister volume Just the Arguments (2011), Bad Arguments is an essential tool for undergraduate students and general readers looking to hone their critical thinking and rhetorical skills.

一本关于西方哲学中100个最臭名昭着的逻辑谬误的及时和易懂的指南，帮助读者避免和发现错误的假设和错误的推理

你会喜欢这本书，或者你会讨厌它。所以，你要么支持我们，要么反对我们。如果你反对我们，那么你就讨厌书。没有真正的知识分子会讨厌这本书。

有没有因为一顿糟糕的饭菜而决定避开一家餐馆？因为一个名人的支持而选择一个产品？或者因为一个政治家不是你的党员而忽略她说的话？只要人们一直在讨论、交谈、说服、倡导、传教、说教或以其他方式说明他们的情况，他们的论点就容易受到错误假设和错误推理的影响。糟糕的论证》借鉴了逻辑错误和哲学失误的悠久历史，展示了错误的论证是如何产生的，以及我们可以做些什么来发现别人的修辞中的错误，并避免自己使用它们。

谬误--或不符合其前提的结论--是大多数不良论证的根源，但我们很容易在不知不觉中陷入谬误。在这本简明扼要的指南中，罗伯特-阿普、史蒂文-巴博内和迈克尔-布鲁斯带领读者回顾了西方哲学中最臭名昭著的100个谬误，确定了最常见的错误步骤、陷阱和论证失误的死胡同。无论是沉没成本、应该、肯定结果、转移目标、乞求问题，还是一直流行的滑坡，每个谬误都有来自当代政治、经济、媒体和流行文化的例子。更多的图和表对条目进行了补充，并对逻辑推理中的常见错误进行了背景说明。

在我们的世界里，能够识别和挑战修辞上的半真半假是至关重要的，这本书帮助读者更好地理解有缺陷的论证，发展逻辑素养。糟糕的论证》在覆盖面上无与伦比，是其姊妹篇《论证》（2011年）的理想伴侣，对于希望磨练批判性思维和修辞技巧的本科生和普通读者来说，它是必不可少的工具。