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Contents of Think Again eBook
- Preface: Why I Wrote This Book
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Our Cultural Rut
- How Did We Get Here?
- How Do We Get Out of Here?
- PART I: WHY TO ARGUE
- So Close and Yet So Far
- What Is Polarization?
- Are the Poles Moving Apart?
- Can’t We at Least Agree on the Facts?
- Do You Hate Your Opponents?
- Has the Epidemic Gone Global?
- Toxic Talk
- Can We Be Civil, Please?
- Who Doesn’t Like a Good Caricature?
- Are We All Crazy Clowns?
- Are Insults Funny?
- How Low Can We Go?
- Is Europe Civilized?
- How Much Is Too Much?
- The Sound of Silencing
- Why Try?
- Where Did You Hear That?
- Why Ask?
- So What?
- Isn’t Silence Soothing?
- What Arguments Can Do
- Who Is the Slave?
- Is There Any Hope?
- What Do We Get Out of Arguing?
- Learning
- Respect
- Humility
- Abstraction
- Compromise
- Where Do We Stand Now?
- INTERMISSION: FROM WHY TO HOW
- Why to Learn How to Argue
- Do You Want to Make a Deal?
- Will Your Wishes Come True?
- Can You Trust Representatives?
- Should You Turn Over a New Leaf?
- Can We Get Better?
- PART II: HOW TO ARGUE
- How to Spot Arguments
- How Much Would You Pay for an Argument?
- What Is an Argument?
- What Purposes Do Arguments Serve?
- When Is an Argument (Being Given)?
- How to Stop Arguments
- Can We Stop Soon?
- What If We Can’t Stop?
- How Can We Stop?
- Guarding
- Assuring
- Evaluating
- Discounting
- How Can Words Work Together?
- How to Complete Arguments
- Which Arguments Are Valid?
- When Is Validity Formal?
- What Makes Arguments Sound?
- What Are You Assuming?
- Do These Methods Scale Up?
- Without Argument
- Justification
- Explanation
- How to Evaluate Arguments
- Was Sherlock Holmes a Master of Deduction?
- What’s So Great about Deduction?
- How Strong Are You?
- How Do I Induce Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
- How Can Dates and Polls Go So Wrong?
- Generalization
- Application
- Why Did That Happen?
- Hussein’s Tubes
- PART III: HOW NOT TO ARGUE
- How to Avoid Fallacies
- What Do You Mean?
- Double Entendre
- Slip Sliding Away
- Can I Trust You?
- Attacking People
- Questioning Authority
- Have We Gotten Anywhere Yet?
- Is That All?
- How to Refute Arguments
- Does the Exception Prove the Rule?
- Is This Absurdity Made of Straw?
- What Is Just Like Arguing . . . ?