Scare Tactics, the first book on the subject, provides a theory of the structure of reasoning used in fear and threat appeal argumentation.

This book is a crash course in effective reasoning, meant to catapult you into a world where you start to see things how they really are, not how you think they are.

A New York Times bestseller, this is the “outstanding” (The Atlantic), insightful, and authoritative account of Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency.

Falter tells the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervor that keeps us from bringing them under control.

Drawing on cases, Stark identifies the problems with our current approach to domestic violence, outlines the components of coercive control, and then uses this alternate framework to analyse the cases of battered women charged with criminal ...

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The news as commodity, public good, and political manipulator -- Selling fear : the not so hidden persuaders -- Civil liberties versus national security -- Selling the Iraq war -- Preventing attacks against the homeland -- Preparing for the ...

These include: example reasoning; false causation and false dilemma; scare tactics; posthoc, ergo propter hoc ... This becomes fallacious (and thus, illogical), however, if it is clear that a single or limited set of examples have been ...

If you have examples of materials that use scare tactics , have these available for people to look at . What To Do 1. Ask people in pairs to read out the dialogue in Handout 33 between two people on the use of scare tactics to prevent ...

These fallacies are example reasoning , scare tactics , post hoc ergo propter hoc arguments , reductio ad absurdum claims , and ad hominem attacks . The fallacy of example reasoning is the absence of deductive reas reasoning .