Practical Reasoning In Natural Language (4th Edition) - Softcover

Thomas, Stephen N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0136782698 ISBN 13: 9780136782698

Publisher: Pearson, 1996

Synopsis

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 analyze a situation involving many pros and cons, and to identify the argument in discourse where the reasoning is obscure, complex or disorganized.

About this title

From the Publisher:

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.

From the Back Cover:

By reading this text and doing the exercises, students will develop the skill to analyze and evaluate and argument (political, religious, mathematical, philosophical, etc.) that they encounter in books, newspapers, speeches, advertising, and other natural-language contexts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0136782698
• ISBN 13: 9780136782698
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 528