About Thinking

Name: About Thinking
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ISBN: 9780135351895

ISBN-10: 0135351898

ISBN-13: 9780135351895

Edition: 2nd 1997 (Revised)

Authors: W. Ward Fearnside

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Description:

Concerned with practical problems and matters basic to critical thinking, this volume provides many examples and "doable" exercises that stress the application of logic to situations expressed in ordinary language. It offers rules for improving the quality of thinkingexplaining basic concepts such as induction and deduction in clear and simple termsand briefly touches upon topics like evidence, statistics and language.

Book details

List price: $199.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 7/15/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English




Fallacies



The Nature of Fallacies



Psychological Fallacies



Material Fallacies



Deduction



Classes, Propositions, and Quantifiers



Class Relationships



The Categorical Syllogism



Immediate Inference



The Hypothetical Syllogism



Disjunctive and Alternative Syllogisms



Enthymemes



Standard Form



Argument in Ordinary Language



Induction



Generalization



Causal Relationship



Hypothesis



Analogy



Language



The Nature and Uses of Language



Definition and Interpretation of Meaning



Evidence



Observation and Inference



Witnesses and Circumstantial Evidence



Judging Statistics



Logic and the Scientific Method


Appendix: Checklist of Fallacies


Index