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Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking
ISBN: 9780155056053 | 0155056050
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Pub. Date: 12/17/2001
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This text offers a balanced treatment of reasoning in ordinary language and formal techniques that enhance understanding of reasoning. The text begins with an extensive treatment of inductive reasoning that includes inductive generalizations and causal arguments. Since students are already familiar with these types of arguments in everyday life, they can appreciate the point of studying them in a systematic way. The text contains many timely features, lively and straightforward prose, and numerous examples and exercises drawn from many areas of... MORE
| 1. Introduction to Arguments | |
| 2. Paying Special Attention to the Language of Arguments | |
| 3. Deductive Arguments, Inductive Arguments, Fallacies | |
| 4. A Closer Look at Inductive Arguments | |
| 5. Causal Arguments | |
| 6. Probabilities and Inductive Logic | |
| 7. Confirmation of Hypotheses | ... MORE |
| 8. Deductive Reasoning--Sentential Logic | |
| 9. Categorical Syllogisms | |
| 10. Arguments in Which Validity Depends on Relationships | |
| Appendix 1 Proof Method for Truth-Functional Logic | |
| Appendix 2: Index of Fallacies | |
| Bibliography | |
| Solutions to Odd-numbered Exercises | |
| Index |
