British academic Robert H. Thouless (?-1984) is best known as the author of "Straight and Crooked Thinking" (1930, 1953), which describes flaws in reasoning and argument. He was a lecturer in psychology at the universities of Manchester, Glasgow, and Reader in Educational Psychology and Fellow of Corpus Christi College in the University of Cambridge. Wikipedia
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