The Thinker's Guide to Fallacies: The Art of Mental Trickery and Manipulation

This volume of the Thinkers Guide Library introduces the concept of fallacies and shows readers how to discern and see through forty-four different types. Focusing on how human self-deception, mental trickery, and manipulation lie behind fallacies, this guide builds reasoning skills and promotes fairminded, logical thought, discussions and debate. As part of the Thinkers Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.