Understanding arguments : an introduction to informal logic
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Understanding arguments : an introduction to informal logic
Thomson Wadsworth, c2001
6th ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Intended for the first course in logic, this text incorporates the philosophy of language and analysis of arguments as they occur in ordinary language and systematic examination of inductive arguments.
Table of Contents
- Part The analysis of argument: the web of language
- the language of argument
- uses of arguments
- the art of close analysis
- deep analysis
- the formal analysis of arguments - propositional logic
- the formal analysis of arguments - categorical logic
- the formal analysis of arguments - quantificational logic
- inductive reasoning
- taking chances - the study of probability
- fallacies of clarity
- fallacies of relevance and vacuity. Part 2 Areas of argumentation: legal arguments
- moral arguments
- scientific reasoning
- philosophical arguments.
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