Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington by Thomas Cathcart | Audiobook

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Listen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial : https://esound.space/audible Title: Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington Author: Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein Narrator: Johnny Heller Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins Language: English Release date: 01-31-08 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: Nonfiction, Politics Summary: Deploying jokes as well as the occasional insight from Aristotle and his peers, Cathcart and Klein explain what politicos are up to when they state: "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence" (Donald Rumsfeld); "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is" (Bill Clinton); or even, "We hold these truths to be self-evident...." (Thomas Jefferson, et al). Drawing from the pronouncements of everyone from Caesar to Condoleeza Rice, Genghis Kahn to Hillary Clinton, and Adolf Hitler to Al Sharpton, Cathcart and Klein help us learn to identify tricks such as "The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy" (non causa pro causa) and the "The Fallacy Fallacy" (argumentum and logicam). Aristotle and an Aardvark is for anyone who ever felt like the politicos and pundits were speaking Greek. At least Cathcart and Klein provide the Latin name for it (raudatio publica)! Contact: [email protected]

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