Menyingkap keyakinan tak masuk akal menjadikan seseorang rasional dalam sehari. Menyingkap pemikiran tak masuk akal menjadikan seseorang rasional sepanjang hidup. Setelah membaca buku ini, anda akan menjumpai banyak kekeliruan berpikir dalam sehari-hari yang mungkin tak anda sadari sebelumnya, termasuk barangkali kekeliruan pada diri anda sendiri. Fokus buku ini adalah cacat logika - kekeliru…
Te Assistant District Attorney glanced down at the papers in his hand and then up at the well-dressed, stockily built man occupying the witness stand. His manner was conciliatory. "According to your testimony, Mr. Clymer, the prisoner, John Sylvester, was honest and reliable, and faithfully performed his duties as confidential clerk," he stated. "Just when was Sylvester in your employ?" "…
There was an unwonted buzzing in the east end of Stratford on that next to the last day of April, 1596. It was as if some one had thrust a stick into a hive of bees and they had come whirling out to see. The low stone guard-wall of old Clopton bridge, built a hundred years before by rich Sir Hugh, sometime Mayor of London, was lined with straddling boys, like strawberries upon a spear of gr…
It was an amiable but deceitful afternoon in the third week of December. Snow fell heavily in the windows of confectioners' shops, and Father Christmas smiled in Keats's Bazaar the fawning smile of a myth who knows himself to be exploded; but beyond these and similar efforts to remedy the forgetfulness of a careless climate, there was no sign anywhere in the Five Towns, and especially in Bu…