●Introduction..........i
●Truth and Deception in the Human Mind..........1
●Uncritical Persons (intellectually unskilled thinkers)..........2
●Skilled Manipulators (weak-sense critical thinkers)..........4
●Fairminded Critical Persons (strong-sense critical thinkers)..........6
●The Concept of Fallacies of Thought..........8
●Naming Fallacies..........9
●Mistakes Versus Fallacies..........11
●There Is No Exhaustive List of Fallacies..........12
●Faulty Generalizations..........14
●Analyzing Generalizations..........18
● t Hoc Generalizations..........22
●Analogies and Metaphors..........23
●44 Foul Ways to Win an Argument..........25
●44 Foul Ways to Win an Argument (chart)..........47
●Fallacy Detection: Analyzing a Speech from the Past..........48
●Fallacy Detection: Analyzing a Current Presidential Speech..........55
●Fallacy Detection: Analyzing a Speech from a Presidential Candidate..........61
●Avoid Two Extremes..........65
●Conclusion: Fallacies in an Ideal (and in a Real) World..........67