he Subjectivist Falla The Relativist Fallacy 19 Two Wrongs Make a Right 196 Red Herring/Smoke Screen 197 Recap 199 Exercises 200 Chapter 7 More Fallacies 211 The Ad Hominem Fallacy 211 The Personal Attack ad Hominem 212 The Inconsistency Ad Hominem 212 The Circumstantial ad Hominem 214 Poisoning the Well 214 The Genetic Fallacy 214 “ Positive ad hominem fallacies”215 Straw Man 215 False Dilemma 21 The Perfectionist Fallacy 220 The Line-Drawing Fallacy 220 Misplacing the Burden of Proof 222 Begging the Question 226 Recap 228 Exercises 229 Chapter 8 Deductive Arguments I: Categorical Logic 254 Categorical Claims 256 Venn Diagrams 257 Translation into Standard Form 258 The Square of Opposition 263 Three Categorical Operations 265 Conversion 265 266 Contraposition 266 Categorical Syllogisms 273 The Venn Diagram Method of Testing for Validity 275Revised Pages vi CONTENTS The Subjectivist Fallacy 194 The Relativist Fallacy 195 Two Wrongs Make a Right 196 Red Herring/Smoke Screen 197 Recap 199 Exercises 200 Chapter 7 More Fallacies 211 The Ad Hominem Fallacy 211 The Personal Attack Ad Hominem 212 The Inconsistency Ad Hominem 212 The Circumstantial Ad Hominem 214 Poisoning the Well 214 The Genetic Fallacy 214 “Positive Ad Hominem Fallacies” 215 Straw Man 215 False Dilemma 217 The Perfectionist Fallacy 220 The Line-Drawing Fallacy 220 Slippery Slope 221 Misplacing the Burden of Proof 222 Begging the Question 226 Recap 228 Exercises 229 Chapter 8 Deductive Arguments I: Categorical Logic 254 Categorical Claims 256 Venn Diagrams 257 Translation into Standard Form 258 The Square of Opposition 263 Three Categorical Operations 265 Conversion 265 Obversion 266 Contraposition 266 Categorical Syllogisms 273 The Venn Diagram Method of Testing for Validity 275 moo86677_fm_i-xxii.indd vi 6/23/08 3:45:14 PM