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title = "An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments - Ali Almossawi"
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date = 2015-03-05
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tags = ["books", "ali almossawi", "reviews", "logic", "fallacies"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18753581-an-illustrated-book-of-bad-arguments):
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This book is aimed at newcomers to the field of logical reasoning,
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particularly those who, to borrow a phrase from Pascal, are so made that they
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understand best through visuals. I have selected a small set of common errors
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in reasoning and visualized them using memorable illustrations that are
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supplemented with lots of examples. The hope is that the reader will learn
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from these pages some of the most common pitfalls in arguments and be able to
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identify and avoid them in practice.
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{{ stars(stars=4) }}
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Short, but fun.
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It's a really fun read, but really really short (I managed to read the whole
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thing in about 40 minutes). I expected a little bit more, some more examples,
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some other types of fallacies and so on.
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It's not that the book is bad, quite the contrary. It's a fun read.
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But short.
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