Save Lives or Save the Rhetoric? : Comparing the Logic of Evidence with the Power of Rhetoric

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Save Lives or Save the Rhetoric? : Comparing the Logic of Evidence with the Power of Rhetoric

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版/ページ数 262 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780761872054
  • DDC分類 320.6

Full Description

This timely book discusses the numerous forms of flawed reasoning that currently plague the realm of public discourse both in the United States and abroad. This book provides and develops a working knowledge of the skills needed to distinguish between rhetorical claims and evidence based claims. The author presents and shows how to debug numerous currently relevant real world examples. Innovative discussion questions provide the reader an opportunity to practice and be actively involved. The objective throughout is pedagogy, not partisanship: to help the reader better understand current events, better evaluate public policy, identify its rhetoric and that of partisan debates.

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction: An Evidence-Based versus a Rhetoric-Based Approach to Understanding Public Policy

Part 1: Logic and Evidence versus Fallacies and Rhetoric

OneWhat Is an Evidence-Based Approach? Can Non-Existence be Proven?

TwoWhat Is an Evidence-Based Approach? Is Non-Proportionality Discrimination?

ThreeBasic Logic and Fallacies: Necessary versus Sufficient Conditions

FourEvidence, Economic Data, and How to Find It

FiveMore Fallacies

SixEvidence: What it Is, What it Is Not

SevenFallacies Based on Personal Attack

Part 2: Basic Knowledge for Decision-Making and Evaluating Policy

EightMaking Good Decisions and Good Policy: Relative versus Absolute, Opportunity Costs, and Marginalism

NineCertainty versus Uncertainty: Multiple Factors, Multiple Uncertain Outcomes, Polls and Their Interpretation

TenIndividual Preferences and Opportunities, and the State's Role: Capitalism, Communism, (Democratic) Socialism, and the Welfare State

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

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