Critical Thinking - Richard Epstein

Critical Thinking

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Buch | Softcover
464 Seiten
2005 | 3rd Revised edition
Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-534-58348-4 (ISBN)
44,85 inkl. MwSt
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Uses over one thousand everyday examples and exercises to illuminate key points and ideas. Students work with illustrations to convert the non-verbal into arguments and arrive at conceptual understanding, providing a fully integrated learning and teaching system.
Critical thinking isn't as easy as it sounds. CRITICAL THINKING shows you how decision-making errors are made, and how to avoid them. By combining simple explanations with time-tested theories, CRITICAL THINKING helps you meet the challenges of life head-on. And because it includes over one thousand examples drawn from everyday life and tons of study tools, this textbook helps you get the grade you need.

THE FUNDAMENTALS. 1. Critical Thinking. 2. What Are We Arguing About? 3. What Is A Good Argument? 4. Repairing Arguments. 5. Is That True? Review Chapters 1-5. THE STRUCTURE OF ARGUMENTS. 6. Compound Claims. 7. Counterarguments. 8. General Claims. Review Chapters 6-8. AVOIDING BAD ARGUMENTS. 9. Concealed Claims. 10. Too Much Emotion. 11. Fallacies: A Summary of Bad Arguments. Arguments for Analysis. Short Arguments for Analysis. Complex Arguments for Analysis. REASONING ABOUT OUR EXPERIENCE. 12. Reasoning by Analogy. 13. Numbers? 14. Generalizing. 15. Cause and Effect. Review Chapters 12-15. Evaluating Reasoning. Composing Good Arguments. Making Decisions. Appendices. Using Examples in Reasoning. Truth Tables. Aristotelian Logic. Diagramming Arguments. Glossary. Answers to Selected Exercises. Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 4.2.2005
Verlagsort Belmont, CA
Sprache englisch
Maße 185 x 231 mm
Gewicht 704 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Logik
ISBN-10 0-534-58348-2 / 0534583482
ISBN-13 978-0-534-58348-4 / 9780534583484
Zustand Neuware
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