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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Preface — vii
Part I: Offense & defense.
Insult and invective — 1
Irony — 14
Demand, response, and neutrality — 20
Belligerence — 27
Justifying aggression — 36
Deploying emotion — 42
Antidotes to aggression and emotion — 50
Ethos — 59
Humility — 67
Magnanimity — 74
Empathy and related uses of imagination — 80
Part II: Inference & fallacy.
Deduction and induction — 89
Circularity — 98
Ad hominem arguments — 104
More fallacies — 112
Reductio ad Absurdum — 114
Slippery slopes — 130
Consistency — 136
Abuses and exceptions — 145
Abduction and related forms of inference — 151
Causation — 157
Part III: Judgments & tradeoffs.
Burden of proof — 167
Bias — 172
Weighing evidence — 178
Costs and benefits — 186
Choice of evils — 194
Compromise and degree — 203
Moderation and concession — 209
Interpretation — 211
Words — 222
Illustration — 232
Futility — 239