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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 | |