The Art of Deception
An Introduction to Critical Thinking - New and Revised
Nicholas Capaldi
Prometheus, 1987, 172 pp, appendix, exercises, index, €20.10, ISBN 0-87975-424-9. 
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How to:
- Win an Argument
- Defend a Case
- Recognise a Fallacy
- See through Deception
- Persuade a Skeptic
- Turn Defeat into Victory
Contents in Detail
- Preface
- Introduction
- What is Logic?
- What is an Argument?
- When is an Argument Acceptable?
- Identifying Arguments
- Arguments
- Difficulties in Identifying Arguments
- Grammar, Punctuation and Reading Comprehension
- Rules for Identifying Premises and Conclusions
- Formal Analysis of Arguments
- Ideal of Logic
- Syllogisms
- Rules for Valid Syllogism
- Soundness and Informal Logic
- Presenting Your Case
- Gaining a Sympathetic Audience
- Presenting the Facts
- Driving Home the Conclusion
- Nonverbal Devices
- Advertising as a Case Study
- Attacking an Argument
- Audience Reaction
- Anatomy of Refutation
- Attacking the Conclusion
- Face-to-Face Debate
- Defending Your Case
- Counterattack
- Winning the Argument
- Going for a Tie
- Cause-and-Effect Reasoning
- History of the Concept of "Causation"
- Hume's Definition of Cause and Effect
- Causal Reasoning as Practical
- Mill's Methods
- Fallacies of Causal Reasoning
- Problems with the Concept of "Causation"
- Appendix