Mount Jackson: Axios Press, 2002. — 513 p.
Nonsense is the best compilation and study of verbal logical fallacies available anywhere. It is a handbook of the myriad ways we go about being illogical, how we deceive others and ourselves, how we think and argue in ways that are disorderly, disorganized, or irrelevant. Nonsense is also a short course in nonmathematical logical thinking, especially important for students of philosophy and economics. A book of remarkable scholarship, Nonsense is unexpectedly relaxed, informal, and accessible.
Foreword
Everyday Nonsense
Emotional Language
Emotional Language: Propaganda
Emotional Language: Suggestion
Logical Fallacies
Irrelevance
Diversion
Ambiguity and Incorrect Inference
Confusion and Incorrect Inference
Confusion of Cause and Effect
Oversimplification
Erroneous Comparison and Contrast
Evasion
More on Arguments
More on Semantics
More on the Syllogism
Seventeen: Final Notes
Summary of Fallacies and Nonsense