Almossawi briefly explains each logical fallacy and the cartoon on the opposite page illustrates how the fallacy works. Here are a few examples of the illustrations: Ad Hominem: ...

The fallacy is that we are surprised when things that are supposed to vary a lot, come down one way a number of times. We feel the next case must break the pattern. In reality, there is no pattern.

Understanding the Broken Window Fallacy . In Bastiat's tale, a boy breaks a window. The townspeople looking on decide that the boy has actually done the community a service because his father will ...