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Preface | |
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Good and Bad Reasoning | |
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Reasoning and Arguments | |
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Exposition and Argument | |
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Cogent Reasoning | |
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Two Basic Kinds of Valid Argument | |
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Some Wrong Ideas about Cogent Reasoning | |
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Background Beliefs | |
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Kinds of Background Beliefs | |
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Worldviews or Philosophies | |
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Insufficiently Grounded Beliefs | |
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Two Vital Kinds of Background Beliefs | |
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Science to the Rescue | |
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Summary of Chapter 1 | |
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More on Deduction and Induction | |
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Deductive Validity | |
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Deductive Invalidity | |
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Syllogisms | |
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Indirect Proofs | |
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Tautologies, Contradictions, and Contingent Statements | |
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Inductive Validity (Correctness) and Invalidity (Incorrectness) | |
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A Misconception about Deduction and Induction | |
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Reasoning Cogently Versus Being Right in Fact | |
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Summary of Chapter 2 | |
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Fallacious Reasoning-1 | |
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Appeal to Authority | |
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Inconsistency | |
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Straw Man | |
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False Dilemma and the Either-Or Fallacy | |
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Begging the Question | |
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Questionable Premise-Questionable Statement | |
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Suppressed (Overlooked) Evidence | |
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Tokenism | |
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Summary of Chapter 3 | |
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Fallacious Reasoning-2 | |
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Ad Hominem Argument | |
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Two Wrongs Make a Right | |
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Irrelevant Reason (Non Sequitur) | |
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Equivocation | |
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Appeal to Ignorance | |
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Composition and Division | |
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Slippery Slope | |
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Summary of Chapter 4 | |
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Fallacious Reasoning-3 | |
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Hasty Conclusion | |
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Small Sample | |
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Unrepresentative Sample | |
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Questionable Cause | |
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Questionable Analogy | |
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Questionable Statistics | |
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Questionable Uses of Good Statistics | |
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Polls: An Important Special Case | |
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False Charge of Fallacy | |
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Summary of Chapter 5 | |
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Psychological Impediments to Cogent Reasoning: Shooting Ourselves in the Foot | |
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Loyalty, Provincialism, and the Herd Instinct | |
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Prejudice, Stereotypes, Scapegoats, and Partisan Mind-Sets | |
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Superstitious Beliefs | |
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Wishful Thinking and Self-Deception | |
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Rationalization and Procrastination | |
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Other Defense Mechanisms | |
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The Benefits of Self-Deception, Wishful Thinking, and Denial | |
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The Pull of Pseudoscience and the Paranormal | |
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Lack of a Good Sense of Proportion | |
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Summary of Chapter 6 | |
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Language | |
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Cognitive and Emotive Meanings | |
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Emotive Meanings and Persuasive Uses of Language | |
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Other Common Rhetorical Devices | |
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Language Manipulators | |
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Language Revision | |
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Summary of Chapter 7 | |
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Evaluating Extended Arguments | |
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The Basic Tasks of Essay Evaluation | |
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The Margin Note and Summary Method | |
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Extended Evaluation of an Argument | |
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Dealing with Value Claims | |
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Evaluating Ironic Works | |
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Summary of Chapter 8 | |
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Writing Cogent (and Persuasive) Essays | |
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The Writing Process | |
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Preparing to Write | |
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Writing the Essay | |
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Supporting Reasons Effectively | |
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Summary of Chapter 9 | |
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Advertising: Selling the Product | |
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Promise and Identification Advertisements | |
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Things to Watch Out for in Advertisements | |
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The Upside of Ads | |
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Marketing Strategies | |
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Political Advertising | |
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Summary of Chapter 10 | |
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Managing the News | |
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The Media and the Power of Money | |
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News-Gathering Methods Are Designed to Save Money | |
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Misdirection and Lack of Proportion | |
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News Reporting: Theory and Practice | |
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Devices Used to Slant the News | |
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Television, Film, and Electronic Information Sources | |
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The Non-Mass Media to the Rescue | |
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Recent Developments | |
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Summary of Chapter 11 | |
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Textbooks: Managing Worldviews | |
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High School History Textbooks | |
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Social Studies (Civics) Textbooks Minimize the Great Gulf between Theory and Practice | |
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Textbooks and Indoctrination | |
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Textbooks and Politics | |
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Censorship | |
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Textbooks Fail to Give Students Genuine Understanding | |
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Postscript on College Texts | |
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Summary of Chapter 12 | |
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More on Cause and Effect | |
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Scientific Method | |
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Calculating Probabilities and Fair Odds | |
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Answers to Starred Exercise Items | |
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Bibliography | |
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Glossary | |
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Indexes | |
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Credits | |