(I started putting this post together sometime back in August, but never got around to finishing or posting it)
Links about verbal combat and sleight-of-hand:
- Conversational Terrorism
- Thirty-eight dishonest tricks which are commonly used in argument, with the methods of overcoming them
- Tricks and Fallacies
- Fallacies, tricks and errors
- The Power of Words: Advertising Tricks of the Trade -- Part One and Part Two
- A Fish Story--Or Not? -- "Behaviorists tell us that lying is innate to the human species and comes about for two genetically programmed reasons: to receive rewards and/or to avoid punishment."
About critical thinking:
- The Critical Thinking Process -- notes from the ever-thoughtful Dave Pollard
- Critical Thinking on the Web -- mondo resource site
There there's:
Lastly, if all else fails:
(Belated thanks to my brother for sending along the link to that pic.)