Erebus 25 years on

[Fantome]

there is no inconsistency here as the statements require no correlation

suggested reading for the elimination of muddled thought . . . potentially -

STRAIGHT AND CROOKED THINKING

by ROBERT H. THOULESS

READER IN EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

TABLE OF CONTENTS -
PREFACE

I. EMOTIONAL MEANINGS

II. ALL AND SOME

III. SOME DISHONEST TRICKS IN ARGUMENT

IV. SOME LOGICAL FALLACIES

IV. WORDS AND FACTS

V. THE DANGERS OF SPECULATION

VI. THE MEANINGS OF WORDS

VII. DEFINITION AND SOME OF ITS DIFFICULTIES

IX. TRICKS OF SUGGESTION

X. HABITS OF THOUGHT

XI. PREDIGESTED THINKING

XII. PITFALLS IN ANALOGY

XIII. PREJUDICE

XIV. THE VALUE OF STRAIGHT THINKING

APPENDIX
I. THIRTY-EIGHT DISHONEST TRICKS
II. A DISCUSSION ILLUSTRATING CROOKED THINKING


This revised and enlarged edition first published 1953
by Pan Books Ltd., S Head/art Place, London, S.W.I