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The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning

The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning

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Thirty-eight short lessons on recognizing errors in reasoning, illustrated with Peanuts, Dilbert, and Calvin and Hobbes strips. Each lesson ends with exercises (answer key included), and the book closes with The Fallacy Detective Game. It has been a standard introduction-to-logic text for over twenty years, for ages twelve through adult.

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Sam
The fastest way to make a kid harder to fool. Thirty-eight short lessons on red herrings, circular arguments, and the rest, and the exercises are actually fun because the examples come from comic strips. It might trip up some adults too!
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The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning
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$32
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Age range
12+ years
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Jul 5, 2026

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