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This work seeks to provide an informal logic and critical thinking textbook - designed to teach students a variety of reasoning strategies which can improve their reasoning skills. The second edition is revised and updated, with the emphasis still on on good reasoning, but with a simplified presentation of key concepts and new features to help students and facilitate discussion and review. It is intended for undergraduate courses in critical thinking.

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Author:   Leo A. Groarke ,  Christopher W. Tindale ,  Linda Fisher ,  Linda Fisher (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press, Canada
Imprint:   Oxford University Press, Canada
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.509kg
ISBN:  

9780195412253

ISBN 10:   0195412257
Pages:   379
Publication Date:   01 January 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Reading Between the Lines; Informative Language; Reading Between the Lines; Biases and Vested Interest; Biased Reasoning; Slanting by Omission and Distortion; Two Kinds of Propaganda; Summary; Major Exercise 1M; Looking for an Argument; Identifying Arguments; Definitions; Distinguishing Arguments and Non-Arguments; Diagraming Argments; Major Exercise 2M; Choosing Your Words; Using Words Precisely; Vagueness and Ambiguity; Formulating Definitions; Expressing Your Intended Meaning; Looking Ahead; Major Exercise 3M; Building Arguments; Abbreviated Arguments; Constructing Good Arguments; Major Exercise 4M; Evaluating Arguments; Good Arguments; Valid and Invalid Arguments; Forms of Argument; The Laws of Thought; Major Exercise 5M; Classifying Arguments; Categorical Statements; Immediate Inferences; Categorical Syllogisms; Testing Validity by Diagrams; Major Exercise 6M; Testing Syllogistic Arguments; Schematization; Distribution; Rules of Validity; Applying the Rules; Procedural Points; Major Exercise 7M; Some Ifs, Ands, and Buts; Simple and Complex Propositions; Translation in More Detail; Valid Propositional Arguments; Constructing Simple Proofs; Major Exercise 8M; Dilemma and Reductios; Conditional Introduction; Reductio Ad Absurdum Arguments; Dilemma; Answering a Dilemma; De Morgan's Laws; Major Exercise 9M; Assessing the Basics; Ordinary Reasoning and Probability; Acceptability; Relevance; Contextual Relevance; Sufficiency; Applying the Criteria; Major Exercise 10M; Forms of Reasoning; Generalization; Causal Reasoning; Slippery Slope Arguments; Arguments from Analogy; Appeals to Precedent; Major Exercise 11M; Further Forms; Two-Wrongs Reasoning; Two-Wrongs Reasoning by Analogy; Pro-Homine and Ad Hominem Reasoning; Guilt by Association; Appeals to Ignorance; Other Cases; Major Exercise 12M; Essaying an Argument; The Good Evaluative Critique; The Good Argumentative Essay; A Student's Paper; Critique; Revision; Conclusion; Major Exercise 13M; Exercise Answers.

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