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Designed for students with no prior training in logic, INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC AND CRITICAL THINKING offers an accessible treatment of logic that enhances understanding of reasoning in everyday life. The text begins with an introduction to arguments. After some linguistic preliminaries, the text presents a detailed analysis of inductive reasoning and associated fallacies. This order of presentation helps to motivate the use of formal methods in the following sections on deductive logic and fallacies that mimic deductive arguments. Lively and straightforward prose assists students in gaining facility with the sometimes challenging concepts of logic. By combining a sensitive treatment of ordinary language arguments with a simple but rigorous exposition of basic principles of logic, the text develops students' understanding of the relationships between logic and language, and strengthens their skills in logic and critical thinking.
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Merrilee Salmon is Professor Emeritus in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
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PREFACE. 1. Introduction To Arguments. 2. Paying Special Attention To The Language Of Arguments. 3. Deductive Arguments, Inductive Arguments, And Fallacies. 4. A Closer Look At Inductive Arguments. 5. Casual Arguments. 6. Probabilities And Inductive Logic. 7. Confirmation Of Hypotheses. 8. Deductive Reasoning-Sentential Logic. 9. Categorical Syllogisms. 10. Quantifiers AND Arguments In Which Validity Depends On Relationships. Appendix One: Proof Method for Truth-Functional Logic. Appendix Two: Index of Fallacies. Bibliography. Answers to Even Numbered Exercises. Index.
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- PublisherCengage Learning
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1111841527
- ISBN 13 9781111841522
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number6
- Number of pages512
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