| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
vi, 410 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE PARAPHRASING -- ch. 1 Bare-Bones Paraphrase -- Introduction -- Concept of Paraphrase -- Reading and Paraphrase -- Technique and Vocabulary -- Human Understanding -- Subtler Issues -- Two Principles of Paraphrasing -- Things to Keep in Mind -- Supplemental Exercises -- Answers -- ch. 2 Reading For Structure: Dependency and Subordination -- Complexity -- Technique and Vocabulary -- Useful Patterns -- Tricks for Tough Cases -- Systematic Features -- Trial and Error Exercise -- Supplemental Exercises -- Answers -- ch. 3 Reading For Reasoning: Paraphrasing Arguments -- Reading for a Particular Purpose -- Reading for Reasoning -- A Shortcut: Schematizing Directly from a Passage -- Charitable Schematizing -- Supplemental Exercises -- Answers -- pt. TWO ANALYZING REASONING -- ch. 4 Argument Analysis: Answering Questions -- Introduction -- Purpose of Analysis -- Fundamental Concepts: Questions and Answers -- Refining the Apparatus and Exercising Our Skills. |
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Evaluating Arguments: How Good Are the Reasons? -- Interim Summary: What We Have Learned So Far -- Dealing with Disagreement -- Supplemental Exercises -- Answers -- ch. 5 Diagnostic Arguments: Reasoning by Explaining -- Introduction -- Diagnostic Questions -- Diagnostic Concepts -- Objects and Resources: Different Kinds of Support -- Refinements -- Diagnostic Investigation -- Supplemental Exercises -- Answers -- ch. 6 Diagnostic Patterns -- Introduction -- Cause and Correlation -- Testimony -- Sampling -- Counting, Cases: Induction by Enumeration Circumstantial Evidence -- Supplemental Exercises -- Answers -- ch. 7 Further Applications: Prediction and Recommendation -- Introduction -- Prediction -- Recommendation -- Supplemental Exercises -- Answers -- ch. 8 Fallacies -- Introduction -- Fallacies of Construction -- Critical Fallacies -- Supplemental Exercises -- Answers -- Appendix Deduction -- Introduction -- Semantic Conflict -- Semantic Evaluation -- Deductive Arguments -- Structure -- Tests and Crieteria -- Relative Strength -- Summary. |
| Subject |
Critical thinking.
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Critical thinking. |
| ISBN |
019979622X |
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9780199796229 |
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