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It organizes common fallacies into practical categories, including emotional wording, propaganda-style suggestion, irrelevance, diversion, ambiguity, incorrect inference, confusion of cause and effect, oversimplification, and misleading comparison. The book also addresses how arguments, semantics, and syllogistic reasoning can go wrong, concluding with final notes.","NOnsense:  \nA Handbook ofLogical Fallacies  \nNOnsense:  \nA Handbook ofLogical Fallacies  \nRobert..Gula  \nHXIOS IresS  \nAxios Press  \nPO Box l18Mount Jackson,VA 22842  \n888.542·9467  \npress@axiosinstitute.org  \nNONSENSE:A HANDBOOK OF LoGICAL FALLACIES◎2002by Axios Institute.All rights reserved.Printed in theUnited States of America.No part of this book may beused or reproduced in any manner whatsoever withoutwritten permission except in the case of brief quotationsused in critical articles and reviews.  \nFirst published by Stein and Day in 1979.  \nIn the Stein and Day edition,the work principallyconsisted of a handbook of verbal logic,but also con-tained some introductory and other material of a morepopular and ephemeral nature,developed by the authorat the request of the publisher.This edition containseverything germane to the author's original concept of atimeless handbook of verbal logic.  \nBoOK AND COVER DESIGN BY NICHOLAS VITTUM  \nLibrary of Congress Catalog Card Number:00-111842  \nISBN:0966190858  \nCONTENTS  \nForeword  \nOne:Everyday Nonsense  \nTwo:Emotional Language  \nThree:Emotional Language:Propaganda  \nFour:Emotional Language:Suggestion  \nFive:Logical Fallacies  \nSix:Irrelevance  \nSeven:Diversion  \nEight:Ambiguity and IncorrectInference  \nNine:Confusion and IncorrectInference  \nTen:Confusion of Cause andEffect  \nEleven:Oversimplification  \nTwelve:ErroneousComparisonand Contrast  \nThirteen:Evasion  \nFourteen:More on Arguments  \nFifteen:More on Semantics  \nSixteen:More on the Syllogism  \nSeventeen:Final Notes  \n# Summary of Fallacies andNonsense\n\niblgra  \n# Foreword\n\nAnyone who met Robert JohnGula in his relatively short life offorty-sevenyears,alifeprematurelycutshortbypancreatic  \ncancer,wasimmediatelyimpressed:theenergy,  the piercing eyes,  theclarity and brevity with which hespoke,the athletic form,the massof swept-aside but rarely tousledsandy brown and gray hair,thesometimes impish sense of humor,the complete concentration withwhich he listened,really listened,to others,the sparkling mind.Here was someone who set track  \nrecords as a youth,who loveddogs and children,who playedthe piano at a concert level withspecial enthusiasm for Franz Liszt,but who also wrote or co-wroteseventeenbooksonsubjectsrangingfromMythology:Greekand Roman toPrecision:  AReference Handbook forWriters,and who alsotaughtLatin,Greek,algebra,geometry,chemistry,Englishcomposition,and,most famously,logic,inaddition to serving as Director ofStudies,at the Groton School,oneof the best secondaryschools in America.  \nIn a listing in ContemporaryAuthors,Bob Gula described whyhe wrote his last book,ahandbook of verballogic.","cbCaifc6532xDdse","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifc6532xDdse","pdf",43915138,1,513,"English","en",105,"# Foreword\n# Summary of Fallacies and Nonsense\n## One: Everyday Nonsense\n## Two: 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