Book of Rationalism

In my philosophy class I remember there being some scoffing at the idea of fables. "How can a fable teach morality?" was the implicit question (to my recollection anyway).

But fables serve a purpose of encapsulating ideas in a memorable phrase, for example: "sour grapes" or "the grass is greener".

One way we can tease out the importance of a good catch-phrase is by this example: fables without a memorable and universal phrase firmly attached are awkward. The story of the scorpion and the fox (or frog or turtle) is a good example of this. With no phrase attached to this story, people feel compelled to tell the whole story each time they want to quote the idea, to the great impatience of people who have heard the tale before.

With this concept in mind we construct the Book of Rationalism.

The book contains stories (small stories that form a larger story arc) that highlight either a cognitive bias (confirmation bias, blind spot bias, availability bias) or a rhetorical fallacy (wishful thinking, slippery slope, ad hominem, appeal to authority) and (crucially) label the story with a tidy and unique phrase to label the idea.

Now this shouldn't be done in a cheesy way (like 80's sitcoms that would have a moral at the end of an overly contrived plot) but instead in a nerdy/cool way (like the way that new Battlestar Galactica deals with moral issues like torture).

(By rhetorical fallacy I mean "any argument that people find convincing that they really shouldn't.")