FALLACIES: 
A View of Logic from the Practical Side, 
By ALFRED SIDGWICK, B.A., Oxon. 
12mo. Cloth, $1.75. 
This book is intended mainly for the general reader. That is to say, 
it requires no previous technical training, and is written as much as pos- 
sible from the unprofessional point of view. 
‘*A book intended for popular use, and one now very much needed in these days 
of half education, when so many persons are the prey of illusions. It treats mainly 
of the methods of proof, shows what evidence is, and the different sorts needed to 
produce belief, and what are the fallacies most suited to deceive.’—Hartford Courant. 
“Like all the others in this series, this volume is intended for the general reader, 
but the trained logician will find it useful and suggestive."—New York Herald. 
“ An important treatise on a topic that deserves the attention of all thinking people. 
The author writes mainly for the general reader; no previous technical training, but 
only a fair degree of intelligence and application, is needful to follow the train of his 
thought.”—Cultivator and Country Gentleman. 
“Even among educated men logic is apt to be regarded as a dry study, and to be 
neglected in favor of rhetoric; it is easier to deal with tropes, metaphors, and words, 
than with ideas and arguments—to talk than to reason. Logic is a study; it re- 
quires time and attention, but it can be made interesting, even to general readers, as 
this work by Mr. Sidgwick upon that part of it included in the name of ‘ Fallacies’ 
shows. Logicis a science, and in this volume we are taught the practical side of it. 
The author discusses the meaning and aims, the subject-matter and process of proof, 
unreal assertions, the burden of proof, non-sequiturs, guess-work, argument by exam- 
ple and sign, the reductio ad absurdum, and other branches of his subject ably and 
fully, and has given us a work of real value. It is furnished with a valuable appendix, 
and a good index, and we should be glad to see it in the hands of thinking men who 
wish to understand how to reason out the truth, or to detect the fallacy of an argu- 
ment.”"— The Churchman. 
“Its perusal would save many a man from being misled *—Lowisville (Ky.) Chris- 
tian Observer. 
“The author has bestowed much labor upon the production, and the originality of 
his ideas is refreshing. He holds that to combat fallacy is the raison d’étre of logic, 
hence, instead of touching logic directly, he treats, in a systematic manner, of those 
fallacies which logic combats.”—Harrisburg (Pa.) Telegraph. 
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