![]() ![]() You have to be careful what you teach your kids, because they turn it back on you! LOL I hid behind the white board and laughed until I sheepishly came out and admitted to the girl that yes, I knew what her card was before I called the wizard. My son (he was 10yo at the time)hollered out from his seat, “RED HERRING!!!! You didn’t answer her question!” All the other kids joined in and there was a chorus of children shouting, “Red Herring!” at their teacher. I just looked at her and asked, “How could I know your card? You kept it hidden from me,” then I turned back to the board. Then I used my cell phone to call the “Wizard”, who got on the phone and told her what card she was holding.Īnyway, once we were done with that and on to some other games and puzzles, I was drawing a puzzle on the white board when the girl who had picked the card for the wizard trick asked me, “Did you know what my card was?” I let a girl pick a card, she looked at it and showed it to the other kids. I started the class by playing a card trick on the kids. One week during logic class, we played lots of games. Appeal to Tradition and Appeal to Hi-Tech Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc in Statisticsģ7. Table of Contents for The Fallacy Detective:Ģ7. How to Use The Fallacy Detective in a Homeschool.How to Use The Fallacy Detective in a Classroom.Peanuts, Dilbert, and Calvin and Hobbes cartoons.Fun to use-learn skills you can use right away.“I really like The Fallacy Detective because it has funny cartoons, silly stories, and teaches you a lot!” -11 Year Old “Cartoon and comic illustrations, humorous examples, and a very reader-friendly writing style make this the sort of course students will enjoy.” -Cathy Duffy, homeschool curriculum reviewer ![]() I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone who wants to improve his reasoning skills.” -Tim Challies, curriculum reviewer “Can learning logic be fun? With The Fallacy Detective it appears that it can be. This is an easy book for learning to spot common errors in reasoning. Therefore, since a plane can fly through a cloud, a plane What is a fallacy? A fallacy is an error in logic a place where someone has made a mistake in his thinking.ĩ0% water. ![]() The Fallacy Detective has been the best selling text for teaching logical fallacies and introduction to logic for over 15 years. Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning ![]()
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