title: Caution Faulty Thinking Can Be Harmful to Your Happiness, Logic for Everyday Living
author: Ph.D. Elliot D. Cohen
description: Caution Faulty Thinking Can Be Harmful to Your Happiness, Logic for Everyday Living
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  **STRAIGHT AND**
  
   **CROOKED THINKING**
  
    
    
    
    
  
   **ROBERT H. THOULESS**
  
   **READER IN EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY IN**
  
  THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
  
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
  Straight and Crooked Thinking ‖ Page 1
  
  This revised and enlarged edition first published 1953
  
  by Pan Books Ltd., S Head/art Place, London, S.W.I
  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
  Straight and Crooked Thinking ‖ Page 2
  
   **CONTENTS**
  
    
  
   **CHAPTER**
  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
   **PAGE**
  
    
  
   **PREFACE**
  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
   **4**
  
   **I.**
  
   **EMOTIONAL MEANINGS**
  
    
    
    
    
    
  
   **5**
  
   **II. ALL AND SOME**
  
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
   **24**
  
   **III. SOME DISHONEST TRICKS IN ARGUMENT**
  
    
    
  
   **35**
  
   **IV. SOME LOGICAL FALLACIES**
  
    
    
    
    
  
   **48**
  
   **IV. WORDS AND FACTS**
  
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
   **59**
  
   **V. THE DANGERS OF SPECULATION**
  
    
    
    
  
   **70**
  
   **VI. THE MEANINGS OF WORDS**
  
    
    
    
    
  
   **76**
  
   **VII. DEFINITION AND SOME OF ITS DIFFICULTIES**
  
    
  
   **89**
  
   **IX. TRICKS OF SUGGESTION