FALLACY
The Counterfeit of Argument

W. WARD FEARNSIDE
WILLIAM B. HOLTHER

1959

It would be a very good thing if every trick could receive some short and obviously appropriate name, so that when a man used this or that particular trick, he could at once be reproved for it.

—Schopenhauer

Dedicated to

HELEN MARGARET HOLTHER
ALICE WARD FEARNSIDE

Transcribed into hypertext by Andrew Chrucky, 2005. The numerous "example" and "comment" have been formatted as the left and right cells respectively in tables.