Learn to spot the trick.
A field guide to the fallacies, rhetorical tricks, and cognitive biases behind arguments that sound right but aren't.
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Today's specimen
One of the nineteen, in rotation. It changes every day.
No. 04
Appeal to Emotion
Use fear, pity, or outrage to win agreement instead of evidence.
Read the Appeal to Emotion entryContents
All 19 specimens, in three divisions.
The classic broken-logic moves.
Debate tactics that dodge the actual argument.
The mental shortcuts that fool us without anyone arguing at all.