Answers to yesterday’s exercises can be found on the Patreon site here  — for today, here’s a useful online resource that has been applied to a speech.

Rhetological Fallacies (errors and manipulations of rhetoric and logical thinking) by David McCandless is on a site called Information is Beautiful, which uses info-graphics to break down elements of data, such as statistics and lists. While I’ve discovered some debate as to what ‘rhetological’ means (as McCandless puts it, a combination of rhetoric and logical?), what this useful infographic does demonstrate is an attractive layout of a number of logical fallacies, that can be used for revision.

In addition, the site has a breakdown of a speech and demonstrates a number of logical fallacies contained within a document, to show how they can be applied. 

Cardinal O’Brien, the President of the Bishop’s Conference of Scotland — in an article for the Daily Telegraph newspaper, put down a number of objections to same sex marriage — there’s about 25 separate fallacies used to make his case. You can find that breakdown here.