Anugerah Erlaut's Reviews > How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic

The content of the book is good. Madsen Pirie managed to explain the different fallacies commonly found in arguments do the the soundness of the logic contained. A lot of different types of logical fallacies were explained, and they were really interesting.

Madsen included witty examples, sometimes forcing us to think and smile as we understood the fallacies. Some fallacies which he explained are really technincal and quite to grasp, while others are commonly practiced in our everyday experiences. Hence, to get the most out of this book, one has to really internalize the different types of logical fallacies and practice it in our daily life.

I wish the author could have arranged the materials in the book much more clearly, topically grouped, preferably, each containing an introduction for each group. I feel it would make the materials in the book much easier to digest, rather than listing them alphabetically and jumping from one type of fallacy to another. Shortly put, there seems to be almost no flow between one fallacy and the next, making understanding the broad topic a more daunting task. There is a short illustration of the groupings of the fallacies at the end of the book, but that makes it inconvenient to refer to everytime I arrive at every fallacy.

As Maden puts it in the book, "in the hands of the wrong person, this is more of a weapon than a book," and I plan to be one of those, hehehe...