23j. Learn to recognize and evaluate propaganda.
The propagandist is a skillful user of most of the kinds of faulty reasoning you have studied on the preceding pages. He is given to frequent use of the hasty generalization; he jumps to conclusions; he reasons by analogy; he attributes an effect to the wrong cause; he diverts you from the real issue by an irrelevant fact or an off-the-subject argument. Loaded words (see page 298) and doubtful testimonials (see page 388) are his stock in trade.
Chapter 23 Language and Logic, in Warriner's English Grammar and Composition Revised Edition, Complete Course, John E. Warriner and Francis Griffith, 1965
The propagandist is a skillful user of most of the kinds of faulty reasoning you have studied on the preceding pages. He is given to frequent use of the hasty generalization; he jumps to conclusions; he reasons by analogy; he attributes an effect to the wrong cause; he diverts you from the real issue by an irrelevant fact or an off-the-subject argument. Loaded words (see page 298) and doubtful testimonials (see page 388) are his stock in trade.
Chapter 23 Language and Logic, in Warriner's English Grammar and Composition Revised Edition, Complete Course, John E. Warriner and Francis Griffith, 1965
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