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Conceptual Foundations | |
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Introduction | |
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Arguments | |
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Reason, Rhetoric, and Argument Analysis | |
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The Ways People Deal with Arguments | |
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Impediments to Good Reasoning | |
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Truth and Rationality | |
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Uses of Language | |
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Truth and Correspondence to the Facts | |
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Rational Belief | |
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Well-Formed Arguments | |
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Argument Analysis | |
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Well-Formed Arguments | |
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Validity, Cogency, and the Truth Value of Premises | |
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Strong Arguments | |
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Deductive Strength | |
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Inductive Strength | |
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The Method of Argument Analysis | |
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Reconstructing Arguments | |
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Argument Reconstruction and the Principle of Charity | |
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Distinguishing Arguments from Non-Arguments | |
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Identifying Premises and Conclusions | |
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General and Specific Premises | |
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Adding Implicit Premises | |
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Details of Argument Reconstruction | |
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Improper Wording | |
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Missing Premises | |
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Including Unnecessary Premises | |
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Evaluating Arguments | |
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Basic Rules of Argument Evaluation | |
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Evaluating Specific Types of Premises | |
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Argument, Analysis and Problems of Meaning | |
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Applications | |
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Arguments and Testimony | |
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The Role of Testimony | |
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Testimonial Arguments | |
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Premises and Testimony | |
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Statistical Arguments and Predictions | |
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Past to Future Arguments | |
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Simple Statistical Statements | |
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The Standard Pattern for Survey Arguments | |
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Evaluating Survey Arguments | |
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Correlations | |
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Causal Arguments | |
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Causal Statements | |
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The Meaning of General Causal Statements | |
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Knowledge of General Causal Statements | |
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Analyzing Causal Arguments | |
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Common Errors in Causal Reasoning | |
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Moral Arguments | |
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Moral Propositions | |
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Morality, Rationality, and Truth | |
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Analyzing Moral Arguments | |
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Common Problems in Moral Reasoning | |
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Extended Examples | |
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The Abortion Debate | |
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Mathematical Reasoning Ability | |
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The Steps of Argument Analysis | |
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Principles, Definitions, and Patterns of Argument | |
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Answers to Selected Exercises | |
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Glossary | |