Trivium Pursuit is giving away 4 copies of The Fallacy Detective by Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn
What is a fallacy? A fallacy is an error in logic – a place where someone has made a mistake in his thinking.
These are fallacies:
“A cloud is 90% water. A watermelon is 90% water. Therefore, since a plane can fly through a cloud, a plane can fly through a watermelon.”
“This new book, The Fallacy Detective, must do a good job teaching logic. It has been on the bestseller list for months.”
We wrote this book to meet the needs of Christian parents who want a do-able text for introducing logic and critical thinking to their children.
* Fun to use – not dry like a math textbook.
* Self-teaching – not intimidating, starts students with skills they can use right away.
* Each lesson has exercises for students, with an answer key at the back.
* Covers logical fallacies and propaganda techniques. We divided the most common fallacies and propaganda techniques into thirty-eight lessons. We explain how you can spot fallacies, and we give exercises to stretch your abilities for detecting fallacies.
* Geared for ages twelve and older – we suggest using The Fallacy Detective before advancing onto more difficult logic programs.
* Includes The Fallacy Detective Game, giving you and your friends an entertaining way to spot and make up your own examples of fallacies.
* Christian view of logic. Many critical thinking texts introduce political correctness. This book does not.
* Can be used before or after The Thinking Toolbox
* Cartoons to illustrate the logical fallacies discussed, including Peanuts, Dilbert, Calvin and Hobbes, and several original cartoons
This book is for fallacy detectives. We’ve designed this book to be a handy-dandy text for learning to spot the errors in thinking that you meet everyday on the street, in the newspaper, or on television – or errors you make yourself.
Pages 214
Binding 6 1/2 × 9 paperback
Price: $22.00
http://www.triviumpursuit.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16138&cat=249&page=1
Would you like to win this book, valued at $22.00? Enter a comment below, along with a way to contact you, and you will be entered into our drawing. We’ll post the winner tomorrow morning!
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Michelle June 6th, 2011 at 8:21 pm
OMG my 11 year-old could so use this! She really struggles with logic! This would be awesome!