Books Archives - Merlyn Gabriel Miller

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No True Patriot

Essentially, the appeal to purity argument is that, “You are not a true A, if you do (or do not)

The above is actually not a mock example, but an excerpt from a report by Saudi religious scholars, where they

The middle ground fallacy is one that can be tempting to resort to. Jane: “Santa gave me a colouring book.”John:

Ever heard of the Texas sharpshooter? Apparently the name comes from an old joke. A Texan shoots random holes at

Ah yes, cognitive dissonance. That ugly thing which everybody suffers from – except you. Right? But if you do suffer

It is simply that the assumption behind these arguments are misleading. And advertisers make good use of this fact to

If an opponent in a debate tries this, you have hit a nerve. Unless you have accused your opponent of