The Voice of Reason: Fundamentals of Critical Thinking - Softcover

Porter, Burton F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195141229 ISBN 13: 9780195141221

Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Lively, comprehensive, and contemporary, The Voice of Reason: Fundamentals of Critical Thinking covers three principal areas: thought and language, systematic reasoning, and modes of proof. It employs highly accessible explanations and a multitude of examples drawn from social issues and various academic fields, showing students and other readers how to construct and criticize arguments using the techniques of sound reasoning.
The Voice of Reason examines the traditional elements of the field and also explores new ground. The first section of the book elucidates the relationship between thought and language, explaining how words function. It discusses meaning, connotation, vagueness, ambiguity, and definition, identifying the linguistic elements that can produce mistakes in thinking. The next section describes the rules of systematic reasoning, examining such topics as truth, relevance, and adequacy; deductive logic (categorical, hypothetical, and disjunctive); and induction (cause and effect, analogy, generalization, and hypothesis). Sixteen fallacies in thinking are also described through extensive illustrations and applications. The final section of the book offers a unique study of what constitutes proof in several different areas--including politics, advertising, law, and social issues--as well as in the academic disciplines of literature, science, history, and ethics.

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Burton Porter is at Western New England College.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0195141229
• ISBN 13: 9780195141221
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
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