The Field Guide for Clear Thinkers

Stymied and stumped by arguments that wrap around you like webs of mystification?

Dr. Ransom's Bestiary is perfect for supplementing any logic curriculum, from junior high to college, or for adults who want to learn more about logic! This book is filled with illustrations, descriptions, exercises, and analysis to help you identify and avoid fallacies you might encounter in everyday life.

Fifty informal fallacies belong to families—fallacies of distraction, ambiguity, form, and "millennial fallacies"—and each one has names, nicknames, and a sketch of its adorable, harmless mode and its true feral face. Each fallacy is followed by discussion questions and exercises; a line-listed answer key and both one and two-semester schedules are included in the back of the book.

Get the flashcards for this amazing introduction to logic! Grades 6+ (at home or in school).

Normal flashcards are printed on 3.4" x 5.5" cardstock. Larger classroom flashcards are printed on 8.5" x 11" cardstock.

Each set includes all fifty fallacy flashcards from The Amazing Doctor Ransom's Bestiary of Adorable Fallacies. Test yourself on fallacy descriptions and all fallacy names (not to mention the ever-captivating beast titles and characteristics). Each flashcard is entertainingly illustrated with each fallacy in harmless mode on one side and attack mode on the other. Get the practice you need to identify the little stinkers wherever they might appear.

What People Are Saying

"I sat down last night with a logic textbook [Adorable Fallacies] prepared by Canon Press—never had I found a subject more artfully and naturally approached.... It's a bit forbidding for me to be before an audience that understands rhetorical tropes, logical fallacies, and so on, because I depend on them to make my points...." -Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air

"While I review the book as one that should be used by teens, I suspect that many adults will enjoy the book as much or more than teens. Those who might have been introduced to logical fallacies through some other course are unlikely to have encountered all of those covered here, and they certainly will not have learned about the bestiary that accompanies them. Even if Dr. Ransom is reviewing some previously-learned concepts, his unique storytelling talents should prove greatly entertaining." -Cathy Duffy, Homeschool Materials Reviewer

"Fun for Kids, Smart for Adults" -Kit

"My 8 year old son was flipping through it the day it came in the mail and he was rollicking on the floor in laughter at the pictures." -Bob

Inside Dr. Ransom's Bestiary

Lesson Scope of the Bestiary

Informal fallacies including:

Kingdom I: Fallacies of Distraction
Kingdom II: Fallacies of Ambiguity
Kingdom III: Fallacies of Form
Kingdom IV: Millenial Fallacies

Contents of the Bestiary

Bestiary of Adorable Fallacies of 50 adorable fallacies
Suggested schedules
Cultural Cheat Sheet
Quizzes and Tests
Exercises and Discussion Questions
Flashcards

Normal flashcards (3.4" x 5.5")
Classroom Flashcards (8.5" x 11")

Free Resources and Samples to Download

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Douglas Wilson has been pastor of Christ Church, Moscow, ID for forty years and is the author of more than fifty books including Empires of Dirt, Rules for Reformers, and Flags Out Front. He blogs regularly at www.dougwils.com and can be heard weekly on The Plodcast. Doug and Nancy have three children and lots of grandchildren.

N.D. Wilson lives and writes in the top of a tall, skinny house only one block from where he was born. But his bestselling novels, including the highly acclaimed 100 Cupboards and Ashtown Burials series, have traveled far and wide and have been translated into dozens of languages. He and his wife have five young storytellers of their own, along with an unreasonable number of pets. You can visit him online at ndwilson.com and follow him on Twitter at @ndwilsonmutters.

Flashcards:

REGULAR FLASHCARDS ISBN-10: 1957905182

REGULAR FLASHCARDS ISBN-13: 9781957905181

CLASSROOM FLASHCARDS ISBN-10: 1957905190

CLASSROOM FLASHCARDS ISBN-13: 9781957905198

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