Sound reasoning is the basis of winning at argument. Logical fallacies undermine arguments. They are a source of enduring fascination, and have been studied for at least two-and-a-half a
millennia. Knowledge of them is useful, both to avoid those used inadvertently by others and even to use a few with intent to deceive.
The fascination and the usefulness which they impart, however, should not be allowed to conceal the pleasure which identifying them can give I take a very broad view of fallacies. Any trick of logic or language which allows a statement or a claim to be passed off as something it is not has an admission card to the enclosure reserved for fallacies.
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