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Author:   T. Ryan Byerly
Publisher:   Baker Publishing Group
Imprint:   Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9780801030819

ISBN 10:   0801030811
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 August 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents Preface for Instructors Part 1: The Skills of Reasoning 1. Introduction to Arguments 1.1 Arguments vs. Nonarguments Exercise 1.1 1.2 Evaluating Arguments Exercise 1.2 2. Deductive Logic 2.1 Famous Forms Method Exercise 2.1 2.2 Counterexample Method Exercise 2.2 2.3 Venn Diagram Method Exercise 2.3 2.4 Proof Method Exercise 2.4 2.5 Expanded Proof Method with Predicates and Quantifiers Exercise 2.5 3. Inductive Logic 3.1 Statistical Syllogism Exercise 3.1 3.2 Induction by Enumeration Exercise 3.2 3.3 Arguments from Authority Exercise 3.3 3.4 Arguments from Analogy Exercise 3.4 3.5 Inference to the Best Explanation Exercise 3.5 Part 2: The Virtues of Inquiry 4. Internal Virtues 4.1 Love of Intellectual Excellence Exercise 4.1 4.2 Intellectual Courage and Caution Exercise 4.2 4.3 Introspective Vigilance Exercise 4.3 5. Virtues of Intellectual Dependence 5.1 Trust Exercise 5.1 5.2 Interpretive Charity Exercise 5.2 5.3 Intellectual Empathy Exercise 5.3 6. Virtues of Intellectual Dependability 6.1 Intellectual Generosity Exercise 6.1 6.2 Communicative Clarity Exercise 6.2 6.3 Audience Sensitivity Exercise 6.3 Appendix: Argument Forms and Proof Rules Glossary of Key Terms

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T. Ryan Byerly (PhD, Baylor University) is lecturer in philosophy of religion at the University of Sheffield in Sheffield, England. He previously taught at Regent University. He is the author of The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence and coeditor of the forthcoming book Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven.

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