How to Think Straight: An Introduction to Critical Reasoning - Softcover

Flew, Antony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573922390 ISBN 13: 9781573922395

Verlag: G38-Prometheus, 1998

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Practical reasoning and clear thinking are essential for everyone if we are to make sense of the information we receive each day. Being able to quickly know the difference between valid and invalid arguments, the contradictory versus the contrary, vagueness and ambiguity, contradiction and self-contradiction, the truthful and the fallacious, separates clear thinkers from the crowd.

How to Think Straight lays the foundation for critical reasoning by showing many ways in which our thinking goes awry. Celebrated philosopher Antony Flew entertainingly instructs on the many and varied faults that occur in argument, the power of reason, how to challenge assertions and find evidence, and how not to be persuaded by half-truths. Flew also examines poor reasoning, and why we should be concerned with finding the truth.

Lucid, terse, and sensible, with study questions and exercises to help along the way, this enlightening second edition will help you develop the skills necessary to argue and reason effectively by following a few simple, easy-to-remember directions.

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Antony Flew (1923 - 2010) was an emeritus professor of philosophy at Reading University, England, and the author of God and Philosophy; Atheistic Humanism; God, Freedom, and Immortality; Thinking About Social Thinking; How to Think Straight; and many other books.

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• Verlag: G38-Prometheus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1573922390
• ISBN 13: 9781573922395
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 164
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