Critical Thinking Consider the Verdict

Name: Critical Thinking Consider the Verdict
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ISBN: 9780137443680

ISBN-10: 0137443684

ISBN-13: 9780137443680

Edition: 3rd 1998

Authors: Bruce N. Waller

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This introduction to critical thinking teaches individuals how to integrate all their logic skills into the critical decision-making process they undertake in their own lives as citizens and consumers. Organized around lively and authentic examples drawn from jury trials, contemporary political and social debate, and advertising, the book discusses not only how to detect fallacies, but also how to examine, appreciate, and construct cogent arguments. For a lifetime of thinking critically and creating arguments about any and all of life's controversies.

Book details

List price: $51.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 7/30/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 434
Size: 7.03" wide x 9.21" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English




Introduction



A Few Important Terms



What's the Question?



Relevant and Irrelevant Reasons



The Burden of Proof



Analyzing Arguments



Necessary and Sufficient Conditions



Symbolic Sentential Logic



Arguments about Classes



Ad Hominem Arguments



Appeal to Authority


Cumulative Exercises One (Chapters 1 through 11)



The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth



Strawman, Slippery Slope, Dilemma, and Golden Mean Arguments: Their Use and Abuse



Begging the Question


Cumulative Exercises Two (Chapters 1 through 14)



Arguments by Analogy



Questions of Cause. Cumulative Exercises Three (Chapters 1 through 16)



Thinking Critically about Statistics


Consider Your Verdict: Comprehensive Critical Thinking in the Jury Room


Answers to Selected Exercises


Index