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Critical thinking : an appeal to reason

Peg Tittle
In Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason, Peg Tittle empowers students with a solid grounding in the lifelong skills of considered analysis and argumentation - skills that should underpin every student's education. Starting with the building blocks of a good argument rather than with the pitfalls to avoid, this comprehensive new textbook offers a full course in critical thinking.€ It includes chapters on the nature and structure of argument, the role of relevance, truth and generalizations, and the subtleties of verbal and visual language. Throughout the text there are numerous sample ar
eBook, English, 2011
Routledge, New York, 2011
Electronic books
1 online resource (xiv, 442 pages)
9780203841617, 9781283038201, 9781136899966, 9786613038203, 0203841611, 128303820X, 1136899960, 6613038202
708568013
1. Critical Thinking
2. The Nature of Argument
3. The Structure of Argument
4. Revelance
5. Language
Truth and Acceptability
7. Generalization, Analopy, and General Principle
8. Inductive Argument: Causal Reasoning
Includes index
English