This publication teaches argument fu: tools for spotting bad reasoning, naming hidden moves, and arguing better with others — but mostly with yourself. Swatting fallacies like flies is fine, but The First Principle is that You Must Not Fool Yourself.

Field Notes are shorter observations, specimens, and argument sightings from the wild. Some may later become full entries in The Argument Field Manual. Others remain what they are: useful marks in the margin.

The Argument Field Manual is TDiqC’s growing field guide to argumentative moves, broken frames, hidden models, and rhetorical machinery. Each entry identifies the mechanism, shows how it works, and makes it easier to recognize the next time it appears.