An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments: Learn the Lost Art of Making Sense (Bad Arguments)

by Ali Almossawi

“You can’t threaten an atheist with hell, Peg. It doesn’t make any sense. It’s like a hippie threatening to punch you in your aura.”

One commits the fallacy of composition by inferring that, because the parts of a whole have a particular attribute, the whole must have that attribute also.

“Each module in this software system has been subjected to a set of unit tests and passed them all. Therefore, when the modules are integrated, the software system will not violate any of the invariants verified by those unit tests.”