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Critical thinking : a concise guide, Tracy Bowell and Gary Kemp
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- Summary
- Critical thinking: a concise guide is a much-needed guide to argument analysis and a clear introduction to thinking clearly and rationally for oneself. Through precise and accessible discussion this book equips students with the essential skills required to tell a good argument from a bad one. This third edition has been revised and updated throughout, with new exercises, and up-to-date topical examples, including: "real-world" arguments; practical reasoning; understanding quantitative data, statistics, and the rhetoric used about them; scientific reasoning; and expanded discussion of conditionals, ambiguity, vagueness, slippery slope arguments, and arguments by analogy
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Extent
- x, 294 p.
- Contents
-
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the third edition
- Introduction and preview
- Introducing arguments
- Linguistic phenomena and rhetorical ploys
- Logic: deductive validity
- Logic: inductive force
- The practice of argument-reconstruction
- Issues in argument assessment
- Pseudo-reasoning
- Truth knowledge and belief
- Isbn
- 9780203874134
- Label
- Critical thinking : a concise guide
- Title
- Critical thinking
- Title remainder
- a concise guide
- Statement of responsibility
- Tracy Bowell and Gary Kemp
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Critical thinking: a concise guide is a much-needed guide to argument analysis and a clear introduction to thinking clearly and rationally for oneself. Through precise and accessible discussion this book equips students with the essential skills required to tell a good argument from a bad one. This third edition has been revised and updated throughout, with new exercises, and up-to-date topical examples, including: "real-world" arguments; practical reasoning; understanding quantitative data, statistics, and the rhetoric used about them; scientific reasoning; and expanded discussion of conditionals, ambiguity, vagueness, slippery slope arguments, and arguments by analogy
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1965-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bowell, Tracy
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1960 October 15-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Kemp, Gary
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Critical thinking
- Critical thinking
- Language and logic
- Reasoning
- Label
- Critical thinking : a concise guide, Tracy Bowell and Gary Kemp
- Bibliography note
-
- Includes glossary
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the third edition -- Introduction and preview -- Introducing arguments -- Linguistic phenomena and rhetorical ploys -- Logic: deductive validity -- Logic: inductive force -- The practice of argument-reconstruction -- Issues in argument assessment -- Pseudo-reasoning -- Truth knowledge and belief
- Control code
- ocn244057390
- Dimensions
- 26 cm.
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Extent
- x, 294 p.
- Isbn
- 9780203874134
- Lccn
- 2009002265
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Label
- Critical thinking : a concise guide, Tracy Bowell and Gary Kemp
- Bibliography note
-
- Includes glossary
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the third edition -- Introduction and preview -- Introducing arguments -- Linguistic phenomena and rhetorical ploys -- Logic: deductive validity -- Logic: inductive force -- The practice of argument-reconstruction -- Issues in argument assessment -- Pseudo-reasoning -- Truth knowledge and belief
- Control code
- ocn244057390
- Dimensions
- 26 cm.
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Extent
- x, 294 p.
- Isbn
- 9780203874134
- Lccn
- 2009002265
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- ill.
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