ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the three parts of a logical proposition (subject, predicate, and truth value), a method for producing good arguments, the qualities of effective argumentation (consistency, coherence, cohesion, progression, and adaptation), and more than 60 examples of different kinds of arguments, including those that are well founded and those that are not: induction, deduction, euphemism, confirmation bias, sophism, syllogism, red herring, litotes, hyperbole, slippery slope, caricature, argument from authority, assimilation, caricature, correlation, division, cauldron, circular, emotional, irrelevant, rational, etc. Each kind of argument is illustrated by a real-life example and a literary example.
