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Popular Fallacies

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Author : Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1908

Popular Fallacies written by Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1908 with Common fallacies categories.

The Book Of Common Fallacies

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Author : Philip Ward
language : en
Publisher: Skyhorse
Release Date : 2012-06-01

The Book Of Common Fallacies written by Philip Ward and has been published by Skyhorse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with Reference categories.

Long before Snopes.com and Wikipedia, The Book of Common Fallacies set out to debunk popular beliefs and set the record straight. By tracking down the facts and citing experts in a multitude of fields, Philip Ward points out the senseless ideas that we have come to accept as fact. Newly updated with today’s common misconceptions and available as a single-volume paperback for the first time, The Book of Common Fallacies exposes the truth behind hundreds of commonly held false beliefs.

Popular Fallacies Explained And Corrected

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Author : Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1940

Popular Fallacies Explained And Corrected written by Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1940 with categories.

Popular Fallacies Explained And Corrected With Copious References To Authorities

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Author : Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1924

Popular Fallacies Explained And Corrected With Copious References To Authorities written by Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1924 with Common fallacies categories.

Popular Fallacies Classic Reprint

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Author : A. S. E. Ackermann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-08-05

Popular Fallacies Classic Reprint written by A. S. E. Ackermann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-05 with Pets categories.

Excerpt from Popular Fallacies "To err is human." "To unlearn is harder than to learn." "I am rubbing their father out of my children as fast as I can," said a clever widow of rank and fashion. "Sometimes while writing my weekly pars I feel a trifle depressed to think that, while many others as well as myself are doing their best to teach the people the advantages to life that follow obedience to the golden rule of health, the seed may all too often fall on stony ground. People nowadays are usually so willing to hang just as they grew. They are influenced by innate fallacy, if not superstition, and hate innovations, even if assured by scientists that these may tend to their comfort and longevity. I do not know if ever I told my readers of a landlady of mine when a student in Ireland, who would never wash her face until Saturday, when she could afford a drop of whisky to rub it afterwards for fear of catching cold. Well, she is one of my examples of thousands and tens of thousands who are content to live and die behind the dark curtain of ignorance. However, I am cheered by the thought that the next generation will be more sensible and more amenable to logic and reason. As regards cheerfulness and light, these ought to go hand-in-hand. Indeed, if one has a well-balanced mind and healthy body he cannot be for any length of time in the fresh air and sunshine - or, falling sunshine, good honest daylight-without feeling happier and calmer. We should remember that tranquillity is one of the first signs that an Invalid is getting well and strong. My advice to all such is to look upon sunshine or light by day as a friend, but to sleep in the dark. Darkness is essential to sound slumber." - Dr. Gordon Stables, R. N., in the Yorkshire Weekly Post of Nov. 21st, 1896. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Dictionary Of Common Fallacies

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Author : Philip Ward
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989

A Dictionary Of Common Fallacies written by Philip Ward and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Common fallacies categories.

Popular Fallacies

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Author : A. S. E. Ackermann
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-06-29

Popular Fallacies written by A. S. E. Ackermann and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-29 with categories.

A book which will undoubtedly give information and entertainment to many readers is Mr. A. S. E. Ackermann's "Popular Fallacies". This volume does not merely enumerate the fallacies but proves them to be so by the use of elementary science. He commences with "domestic fallacies," among which is included the dangerous notion that it is wise to use cobweb to stop a cut from bleeding. "As a small child," says Dr. Frankland, "happened to cut its finger with an ordinary kitchen knife, its father endeavored to stop the bleeding of the wound by binding it up with some cobwebs, a superstitious practice which would be more honored in the breach than the observance, for the child developed nearly a month later typical symptoms of tetanus." It was undoubtedly the spider's web that produced lockjaw in this case, since rabbits and guinea pigs inoculated with web from the same place developed clearly-defined symptoms of tetanus. It follows that the old idea "that lockjaw is produced by cutting some ligament or tendon between the finger and thumb" is itself a fallacy. Mr. Ackermann quotes from Dr. Newman's "Bacteria '': "It is not the locality of the wound nor its size that affects the disease. A cut with a dirty knife, a gash in the foot from the prong of a gardener's fork, the bite of an insect, or even the prick of a thorn have before now set up tetanus." To pass to milder fallacies, Mr. Ackermann points out that sugar is not bad for the teeth, and that no people have such excellent teeth as the negroes of the West Indies, who are always eating sugar. Similarly the author exposes that odd survival from the nursery that it is bad to bathe in cold water when one is hot. A more mature fallacy in regard to water is that any dangerous qualities in it may be obviated by the addition of wine and spirits. "The only water," wrote the late Sir Henry Thompson, "safe for the Continental traveler to drink is a natural mineral water, and such is now always procurable throughout Europe, except in very remote or unfrequented places. In the latter circumstances no admixture of wine or spirit counteracts the poison in tainted water and makes it safe to drink, as people often delight to believe, but the simple process of boiling renders it perfectly harmless.".... -T. P.'s Weekly, Vol. 10