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Critical Thinking for Marketers, Volume I by David Dwight, Terry Grapentine, David Soorholtz

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Section I

Basic Concepts

Chapter 1

Overview

Chapter 2

The Nature of Marketing Arguments

Chapter 3

The Nature of Logical Fallacies

Section II

Informal and Formal Logical Fallacies

Chapter 4

Formal Logical Fallacies in Marketing: Introduction

 

Affirming a Disjunct

 

Affirming the Consequent

 

Bad Reasons

 

Illicit Major

 

Illicit Minor

 

Negating Antecedent and Consequent

Chapter 5

Informal Logical Fallacies in Marketing: Introduction

 

Ad Hoc Rescue

 

Ad Hominem: Personal Attack

 

Against Self-Confidence

 

Alleged Certainty

 

Ambiguity

 

Appeal to Accomplishment

 

Appeal to Authority

 

Appeal to Common Belief

 

Appeal to Consequences

 

Appeal to Desperation

 

Appeal ...

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