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It covers the range of tools that you should want to give to a critical thinker. It also presents wonderful, real-life examples of both the good and the bad in human thought, giving the student a chance to reflect and respond. Merrilee Salmon's text wonderfully demonstrates the fact that both formal deductive logic and informal reasoning (critical thinking) are linked. the text accomplishes what other logic books always force the instructor to develop on their own: a way to render philosophy and logic relevant to any student in any discipline while simultaneously demonstrating the importance of using language prudently. This text is exactly as advertised: an excellent introduction to both formal, sentential logic and informal, inductive reasoning ( critical thinking ). Of the numerous introductory reasoning texts that I have surveyed this one remains, to date, the only one currently on the market which extensively covers both deductive and inductive reasoning while remaining highly readable (i.e., does not read like a math text ) - no small feat.

This text is exactly as advertised: an excellent introduction to both formal, sentential logic and informal, inductive reasoning ( critical thinking ). Of the numerous introductory reasoning texts that I have surveyed this one remains, to date, the only one currently on the market which extensively covers both deductive and inductive reasoning while remaining highly readable (i.e., does not read like a math text ) - no small feat.

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Merrilee Salmon is Professor Emeritus in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

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