Rhetological Fallacies

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1	Welcome to the Rhetological Fallacies sheet	Buy a hi-res PDF of these fallacies: http://store.informationisbeautiful.net/
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3	A visualisation of errors and manipulations of rhetoric and logical thinking.
4	See the information design here: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/rhetological-fallacies/
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6	There a lots of good indexes of logical fallacies out there online.	see the sources sheet below
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8	A few suffer from being heavily philosophical, over-abstract or have difficult-to-grasp examples.
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10	So here I've condensed all the definitions and tried to write them in plain English.
11	Also, I've roved for everyday or current examples to give you a sense of each fallacy and technique.
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13	As a team, we've created little 'roadsigns' for each one to give you a visual-conceptual flavour of each.
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15	Please use the sheets at the bottom of the spreadsheet to navigate.
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17	translations
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19	Chinese Version: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rhetological-fallacies/诡辩术/	Thanks to Weiwei Li
20	French Version: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rhetological-fallacies/arguments-rhetologiques-fallacieux/	Thanks to Gilles Peyroux
21	German Version: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rhetological-fallacies/rhetorischer-lug-und-logischer-trug/	Thanks to Klaus-Michael Lux
22	Hungarian Version: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rhetological-fallacies/retorikai-felrevezetesek/	Thanks to Kadar Magor
23	Italian Version: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rhetological-fallacies/fallacie-retologiche/	Thanks to Adriano Venditti
24	Portuguese Version: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rhetological-fallacies/falacias-retologicas-pt/	Thanks to Hayanna Carvalho
25	Romanian Version: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rhetological-fallacies/erori-logice/	Thanks to Kadar Magor
26	Spanish Version: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rhetological-fallacies/falacias-retologicas-es/	Thanks to Iván Galarza
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28	This is a on-going 'living list' so feel free to comment or suggest improvements.	informationisbeautiful@gmail.com
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30	Hope you find it useful!
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32	Thank you!
33	David McCandless
34	March 2012
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36	Credits
37	writing: David McCandless
38	research: DM, Marley Whiteside, Kathryn Ariel Kay, Peter Ayres
39	design: DM, Tatjana Dubovina, Piero Zagami
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41	Buy a hi-res PDF of these fallacies:
42	http://store.informationisbeautiful.net/
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