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Nobody wants a logic course. Everybody wants to be right.

Sofizm exists so you can recognise the moves people pull on you in arguments. Every fallacy gets a name, a pattern, a drawing and a comeback. You don't have to read much; find it, send it, move on.

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Most of the Turkish names we owe to Alev Alatlı; her Safsata Kılavuzu remains one of the best books on fallacies written in Turkish. For definitions we consulted the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Fallacy Files and Wikipedia; every word here is our own.

The people in the strips are Temel, Dursun and Fadime, the stock characters of Turkey's Black Sea jokes. Fadime is Temel's wife.

One reminder: a bad argument doesn't make a claim false. That has a name too: the Fallacy Fallacy.