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Straight and Crooked Thinking
By: Robert H. Thouless
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STRAIGHT AND CROOKED THINKING is a practical book for 'the man in the street'. The debater, the public speaker, and the journalist will immediately recognise its value; but everyone who has occasion to discuss contro- versial topics either in the course of business or merely in talking with friends will benefit from reading it. The author writes as a psychologist, believing that what usually interferes with correct thinking is not ignorance of the laws of logic but the tendency to be dominated by psycho- logical factors. He shows, for instance, how the use of words with emotional meanings can obscure the real facts, and how fallacies in argument can mislead an unwary audience. He points out how diverse are the meanings attached by different people to such words as democracy, religion, freedom, etc. After chapters on definition, suggestion, habits of thought, predigested thinking, pitfalls in analogy, and prejudice he lists 38 dishonest tricks commonly used in argument and the methods of overcoming them, and ends with an entertaining imaginary discussion between a business-man, a clergyman, and a professor which he has invented to illustrate the various kinds of crooked thinking. Throughout, he draws his examples from live topics such as politics, religion, economics, and international affairs.
