I too am not convinced of the usefulness of these lists in helping you to shape your toughts.

However, they might turn useful in understanding why somebody told you not to "put up a straw man", or used other apparently weird expressions. (I think I've never found an occurrence of the "No true scotsman" argument, but it sounds quite funny!) Though I doubt I would hunt for this specific book in that case, just googling around would be probably faster.