The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy

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In this book you'll find out about sophisms ex homonymia. You'll see links in a chain of reasoning omitted. And false premises, and omitted premises. And non sequiturs. Suppressed majors. Negated minors. Argumentum ad ignorantiam. There is advice about false generalizations. Get your opponent to admit that your examples are true. Do not ask about the validity of the general case, but later act as if this has been admitted as well. Then there are "false choice" arguments, where you pretend that the only alternative to your policy is some manifestly crazy "straw-man" counterplan. And there are false reductio ad absurdums and false counterexamples. There are also suggestive questions, such as asking why something is true, when it may not be true at all. This is a real gem of philosophy literature that is a definite must read.
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