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In this part . . .
Discover my ten favourite logical fallacies, to give a rather grand title to what are really just dodgy argument techniques.
Take a whistle-stop tour of arguments in history. You may learn a few tips here, but mainly it's a snapshot view of the role ideas expressed in words have played in history — and will doubtless continue to do so in the future.
Develop your view about why some things seem interesting and about how people tend to join the dots even when really the dots are pretty random.