S. Morris Engel, *The Language Trap / With Good Reason*

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WIE_F2015_09 · How to be a Successful Engineer, Fall 2015 · §6.p1

There's another thing I've been using for 15 years. I was teaching a freshman seminar on things you needed to know, and I came across this book Fallacies and Pitfalls of Language: The Language Trap by this Canadian, [Morris] Engel, a logician. I've put on Stellar — or will be on Stellar — my synopsis of that. So I wrote my own CliffsNotes for the students, and the date on it is December 2000. I'm just paraphrasing the book. Aristotle basically came up with three hundred and some logical arguments, all but a couple of dozen of which he found were incorrect logically. You can start drawing Venn diagrams of the logic. I'm not handing out the book — you can get one yourself, or if you Google "errors of law" you'll find this document. I was surprised somehow that it's on there.