The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook for Critical Thinking

by Hendrickson, Noel
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ISBN: 9780742559790
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Just as The Elements of Style provides a quick and authoritative reference for writers, The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook for Critical Thinking provides a quick and authoritative reference for issues regarding reasoning. The Handbook provides clear and succinct discussions of the following issues: - Issues germane to clarifying sentences: ambiguity, vagueness, and propositional attitudes - General discussions of descriptions, explanations, and arguments - Criteria for evaluating observational statements and testimony - Categorical syllogisms, including issues germane to both the Boolean and Aristotelian interpretations - A complete system of propositional logic and a brief discussion of the use of truth tables - Induction: generalization and particularization arguments, analogies, arguments to the best explanation, Mill's Methods, counterfactual reasoning, and making decisions under risk and uncertainty - A brief discussion of the principle formulas involved in calculating probabilities - An extended discussion of informal fallacies - An essay on the relationship between critical thinking and writing
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Hendrickson, Noel
  • ISBN: 9780742559790
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.94 x 0.49
  • Number Of Pages: 168
  • Publication Year: 2008

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