Classic work that introduces the history and major concepts (Ethics, Metaphysics, Epistemology, logic and other questions besides the Six Theories of Tragedy and the Mystery of human suffering to the reader.

The Study of Philosophy: An Introduction

Politics & Social Sciences

Engel, S. Morris

Philosophy

Harcourt School

The Language Trap: Or How to Defend Yourself Against the Tyranny of Words

Prentice Hall PTR

The language trap, or How to defend yourself against the tyranny of words

PRENTICE/HALL

A nontechnical explanation of the logical and linguistic elements of argument precedes analyses of informal fallacies of ambiguity, presumption, and relevance

With good reason: An introduction to informal fallacies

St.Martin's Press

With Good Reason

St.Martin's

A concise, easy-to-read introduction to informal logic, With Good Reason offers both comprehensive coverage of informal fallacies and an abundance of engaging examples of both well-conceived and faulty arguments. A long-time favorite of both students and instructors, the text continues in its sixth edition to provide an abundance of exercises that help students identify, correct, and avoid common errors in argumentation.

With Good Reason: An Introduction to Informal Fallacies

Bedford/St.Martins

A concise, easy-to-read introduction to informal logic, With Good Reason offers both comprehensive coverage of informal fallacies and an abundance of engaging examples of both well-conceived and faulty arguments. A long-time favorite of both students and instructors, the text continues in its sixth edition to provide an abundance of exercises that help students identify, correct, and avoid common errors in argumentation.

Bedford/St.Martin's

As S. Morris Engel alerts us in this eye-opening book, we risk falling into potentially harmful language traps every moment. Not just the occasional malapropism or grammatical faux pas, but a more sinister kind — distortions of meaning that would persuade us to believe something that may not be true. Sometimes these language traps are set for us deliberately by politicians, advertisers, journalists, lawyers or other professional persuaders. Sometimes they are set inadvertently by our friends, our loved ones — even ourselves. This work explains how and why these fallacies work, and how we may suffer the consequences when they do. Day after day we listen to government newspeak (our troops are called "peace-keeping forces"), exaggerated advertising claims from "leading authorities," twisted logic and misleading propaganda. We are treated to more and more euphemisms (slums are called "substandard housing"; dogcatchers, "animal welfare officers"). We encounter innumerable ambiguities ("I wish you all the good fortune you deserve") — and indulge in a few ourselves. The author wittily explores this verbal minefield, and tells us how to spot a language trap and how to avoid falling in. The book is not only a useful manual of verbal self-defense, it's an engrossing study of the nature of language and the subtle ways in which it operates. It will intrigue anyone interested in words, language, and the dynamics of modern culture.

Fallacies and Pitfalls of Language: The Language Trap (Dover Language Guides)

Dover `

Hobbes Studies

STRAUSS, Leo

Plamenatz, John

THOMAS, KEITH

MacPherson, C.B.

Cattaneo, Mario A.

Taylor, A.E.

Warrender, Howard

Pennock, J. Roland

Brown Jr., Stuart M.

Wernham, A.G.

Glover, Willis B.

Watkins, J.W.N.

Politics & Government

Harvard University Press

Study of Philosophy: An Introduction

Collegiate Pr

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