Practical Reasoning in Natural Language

Name: Practical Reasoning in Natural Language
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ISBN: 9780136782698

ISBN-10: 0136782698

ISBN-13: 9780136782698

Edition: 4th 1997 (Revised)

Authors: Stephen N. Thomas

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Written especially for beginners, this basic manual/workbook shows how to analyze and evaluate any passage of reasoning or argumentation as it actually occurs in natural language contexts - e.g., books, articles, essays, speeches, editorials, conversations. This book presents a general method of ";natural logic";by which the logical structure of any argument -Scientific, philosophic, mathematical, political, religious, ethical, legal, ";inductive";, ";deductive";, modal, semantic, syntactic, evidentiary, etc. - can be graphically represented without; employing traditional methods used in logic textbooks (e.g. truth-tables, Venn diagrams, etc.). It shows how these techniques can be used to…

Book details

List price: $139.99
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 10/25/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Stephen Thomas is a senior research fellow at the University of Greenwich, UK. He has researched widely in energy policy and planning.



Preface to the Instructor


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Basic Analysis of Reasoning



What Is Reasoning



Reasons and Conclusions



Determining the Logical Structure of a Reasoned Discourse



Analyzing the Structure of Longer and More Complicated Arguments



Basic Evaluation of Reasoning



What Is Good Reasoning?



Semantic Clarification



Conditional Relationships



Some Valid Steps of Reasoning Using Conditional and Other Relationahips



The How and Why of Supplying Suppressed Premises<l>III</l>



Analyzing Muddy Reasoning or Confused Exposition



Informal Fallacies



Common Mistakes in Reasoning



Additional Common Mistakes in Reasoning



More Common Mistakes in Reasoning



Practical Decision Making



Making Decisions Logically: Reasons For Actions and Reasons Against Actions



Reasons Against the Validity of Other Reasons



Analyzing Media Editorials



Analyzing Reasoning Expressed in Contemporary Editorial Style



Analyzing Philosophical Reasoning



Analyzing Long Linked Arguments



Analyzing Disorganized or Confused Complex Reasoning


Index