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This handy book is a summary and guide to the art of reasoning well in academic pursuits and in everyday life. The Second Edition of Epstein's comprehensive text, CRITICAL THINKING, set a new standard of pedagogical excellence and provided a well-integrated approach to the subject. This brief "pocket guide" provides the same benefits in a trimmed-down fashion, covering the essentials. This latest edition includes revised examples that are more inter-disciplinary in scope.

Claims	p. 1
Concealed Claims	p. 7
Arguments	p. 10
Evaluating Premises	p. 13
Experiments	p. 19
The Conclusion Follows	p. 21
Repairing Arguments	p. 25
Compound Claims	p. 32
Counterarguments	p. 42
General Claims	p. 46
Analogies	p. 55
Models	p. 59
Numbers	p. 65
Generalizing	p. 68
Cause and Effect	p. 77
Cause in Populations	p. 88
Explanations	p. 92
Fallacies	p. 109
Evaluating Reasoning	p. 115
Writing Good Arguments	p. 119
Making Decisions	p. 121
Index
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The Pocket Guide to Critical Thinking

The Pocket Guide to Critical Thinking

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