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(Guest Post) Book Review — The Art of Argument by Tosin Adeoti
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Late to the party, but when did I ever care for pressure?
When T handed me a copy of this book, The Art of Argument, I was flattered and elated. Flattered because he told me I was the very first person to own it, and also because I could tell that he valued my opinion about it. Even before I got to open it, I asked if the book discussed the fallacies of logic. He said yes. From that moment, my bias in favour of the book was formed.
(It was from T’s posts circa 2020 that I first learnt about the logical fallacies that present in arguments. He wrote them in series at the time. I dug them all out and compiled them into a pdf file which I would later go back to read or reference whenever I needed to.)
I thought it was brilliant that he dedicated some chapters to treating just that. And really, where better to learn about fallacious arguments, how to identify them, and how to avoid making them than in a book titled “The Art of Argument”? On that basis, it lives up to its name.
TAOA was an interesting addition to my life late last year. Everyone who came in contact with me then got to know about the book, and we sometimes had conversations around it. I went everywhere with it to kill time. To the salon. To…
