《有毒的逻辑》
内容简介
“有毒的逻辑”在我们的生活中随处可见。你每天看到、听到的话,有多少经得起推敲?你是否常常感觉别人说的话不太对劲,却又找不到突破口来反驳?
你一定希望能快速、准确地识别出每天看见的各种说辞背后隐藏的逻辑谬误,这本书就是你需要的“谬误词典”。
本书是关于日常语言中的逻辑谬误的代表作。在不到200页的篇幅中,作者分门别类,足足阐述了170余种语言逻辑谬误,包括诉诸情感、暗示、不正确推理、模棱两可、过度简单化、错误的比较……本书可以作为一本自查和预防手册,帮助你不轻易被有毒的逻辑说服,也能更好地组织自己的语言,以理服人。
作者简介
罗伯特·J.古拉(RobertJ.Gula,1941—1989),先后毕业于科尔比学院和哈佛大学,毕业后在格罗顿学校教授逻辑学。他在短暂的一生中,独著或合著了超过60本书,其中最受欢迎和影响力最大的就是《有毒的逻辑》。这本书是语言逻辑领域著名的代表作,首版于1979年,后多次改版,经久不衰。
Toxic Logic
Content introduction
Toxic logic is everywhere in our lives. How much of what you see and hear every day stands up to scrutiny? Do you often feel that something someone is saying is not quite right, but you can't find a breakthrough to refute it?
If you want to be able to quickly and accurately identify the logical fallacies behind the statements you see every day, this book is the "fallacy dictionary" you need.
This book is a masterpiece of logical fallacies in everyday language. In less than 200 pages, the author catalogues more than 170 linguistic fallacies, including appeals to emotion, suggestion, incorrect reasoning, ambiguity, oversimplification, false comparisons... This book can be used as a self-examination and prevention manual to help you not be easily persuaded by toxic logic, but also to better organize your language and persuade people with reason.
About the author
RobertJ.Gula (1941-1989), a graduate of Colby College and Harvard University, taught logic at the Groton School. During his short life, he wrote or co-authored more than 60 books, the most popular and influential of which was Toxic Logic. This book is a famous representative work in the field of language logic, first published in 1979, and has been revised many times since.