Welcome to our Celebrate Freedom (& Simplicity) in Biblical Home Education Facebook Party Door Prize post! If you aren’t at the party on the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, click on over there now! “Like” the Page and join the fun for more great prizes from Me & My House and others! Then read below to find out how to enter the drawing for this Door Prize. If it is after 8 p.m. central time, Tuesday July 12, 2011, sorry, you missed the party. But if it’s before midnight, you may still be able to enter to win this and other Door Prizes. Scan through the recent blog posts.
Tonight, Harvey & Laurie Bluedorn of Trivium Pursuit have donated TWO copies of The Fallacy Detective, a $22 value each, for TWO blessed attenders of the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Party. Thanks so much Harvey & Laurie! “Like” The Fallacy Detective on Facebook.
Here’s the Book TWO blessed attenders are going to win!
Keep reading for instructions to enter the drawing.
Exercise
Many times the only thing people dislike more than exercises their bodies is exercising their brains. It’s hard work. But the more you do it the easier it becomes. And the Christian Logic books from Trivium Pursuit help make it painless – perhaps even fun. ~ Me
The Fallacy Detective
What is a fallacy? A fallacy is an error in logic – a place where someone has made a mistake in his thinking.
These are fallacies:
“A cloud is 90% water. A watermelon is 90% water. Therefore, since a plane can fly through a cloud, a plane can fly through a watermelon.”
“This new book, The Fallacy Detective, must do a good job teaching logic. It has been on the bestseller list for months.”
We wrote this book to meet the needs of Christian parents who want a do-able text for introducing logic and critical thinking to their children.
- Fun to use – not dry like a math textbook.
- Self-teaching – not intimidating, starts students with skills they can use right away.
- Each lesson has exercises for students, with an answer key at the back.
- Covers logical fallacies and propaganda techniques. We divided the most common fallacies and propaganda techniques into thirty-eight lessons. We explain how you can spot fallacies, and we give exercises to stretch your abilities for detecting fallacies.
- Geared for ages twelve and older – we suggest using The Fallacy Detective before advancing onto more difficult logic programs.
- Includes The Fallacy Detective Game, giving you and your friends an entertaining way to spot and make up your own examples of fallacies.
- Christian view of logic. Many critical thinking texts introduce political correctness. This book does not.
- Can be used before or after The Thinking Toolbox
- Cartoons to illustrate the logical fallacies discussed, including Peanuts, Dilbert, Calvin and Hobbes, and several original cartoons
This book is for fallacy detectives. We’ve designed this book to be a handy-dandy text for learning to spot the errors in thinking that you meet everyday on the street, in the newspaper, or on television – or errors you make yourself.
The winners of this drawing will receive The Fallacy Detective. You can enter this drawing several ways. Increase your chances of winning by doing all of them! Each must be a separate comment to this post (below.)
1) Post a comment below answering: What kinds of fallacies in reasoning can you recognize?
2) “Like” and/or Comment on the Facebook Party Page post about this Door Prize. Comment below to tell us you did.
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