Thinking Clearly

A Guide to Critical Reasoning

By: Jill LeBlanc

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Paperback | 1 August 1998 | Edition Number 1

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Recognizing the importance of rehearsing and reinforcing basic skills, Professor LeBlanc presents the essential concepts concisely so that students have time to work through the many exercises in the text and on LEMUR, its accompanying software. No other critical thinking text on the market succeeds as well in presenting fundamental material succinctly while encouraging consistent practice."

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Non-Fiction Education Educational Psychology Philosophy Philosophy & Logic Philosophy of The Mind Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology

Introduction	p. xi
Identifying Arguments	p. 1
Arguments	p. 2
	p. 5
Propositions	p. 7
	p. 9
Explanations	p. 10
Summary	p. 19
	p. 20
	p. 23
Standardizing Arguments	p. 24
Standardization	p. 24
Subarguments	p. 26
Linked and Convergent Premises	p. 32
	p. 34
Missing Premises and Missing Conclusions	p. 37
	p. 38
Assumptions	p. 38
	p. 40
Counterarguments	p. 41
	p. 45
Counterconsiderations	p. 47
Summary	p. 49
	p. 49
	p. 53
Categorical Logic	p. 54
Categorical Statements	p. 54
Standard Form	p. 56
Distributed and Undistributed Terms	p. 59
	p. 62
The Square of Opposition	p. 63
	p. 67
Immediate Inferences	p. 68
	p. 70
	p. 72
	p. 74
Categorical Arguments	p. 76
	p. 77
Evaluating Syllogisms	p. 79
Summary	p. 83
	p. 83
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions	p. 85
Conditional Statements	p. 85
All and Only	p. 88
Counterexamples	p. 91
	p. 91
If...Then	p. 92
	p. 94
Only If	p. 95
	p. 96
Negation	p. 96
Unless	p. 99
Both Necessary and Sufficient/Neither Necessary nor Sufficient	p. 100
	p. 100
Conditional Arguments	p. 102
Good Arguments	p. 103
Bad Arguments	p. 104
Practice with Conditional Arguments	p. 106
Valid and Invalid Arguments	p. 110
Summary	p. 112
	p. 112
Language	p. 115
Definitions	p. 115
	p. 117
Stipulative Definitions	p. 117
Evaluating Stipulative Definitions	p. 119
	p. 121
Operational Definitions	p. 121
	p. 125
Fallacies of Language	p. 125
Persuasive Definitions	p. 125
Emotional Force in Language	p. 127
	p. 135
Ambiguity and Vagueness	p. 135
Summary	p. 140
	p. 140
Accepting Premise	p. 143
Reasons to Accept Premises	p. 143
Common Knowledge	p. 146
Authority	p. 153
	p. 157
Fallacies Resulting from Bad Premises	p. 158
Dichotomy Arguments	p. 159
Begging the Question	p. 163
Summary	p. 169
	p. 170
Relevance	p. 172
Fallacies that Occur in Counterarguments	p. 173
Straw Person Fallacy	p. 174
Ad Hominem	p. 177
Tu Quoque	p. 183
	p. 185
More Fallacies of Relevance	p. 187
Fallacious Appeal to Authority	p. 187
Appeal to Tradition	p. 189
Appeal to Ignorance	p. 191
	p. 196
The Gambler's Fallacy	p. 196
Appeal to the Majority/Appeal to the Select Few	p. 198
Summary	p. 200
	p. 200
	p. 202
Arguments from Analogy	p. 204
Analogies	p. 206
Fallacies of Analogy	p. 218
Fallacy of Two Wrongs	p. 218
Slippery Precedent	p. 219
Slippery Assimilation	p. 221
Summary	p. 222
	p. 223
	p. 226
Arguments from Experience	p. 229
Types of Arguments from Experience	p. 230
Hasty Generalization	p. 234
	p. 236
Statistical Arguments	p. 238
What Did You Count?	p. 240
How Did You Count It?	p. 247
	p. 250
Operationalization	p. 251
Researching Sensitive Topics	p. 253
Ethical Issues in Research	p. 254
	p. 255
Evaluating Statistical Arguments	p. 257
Summary	p. 263
	p. 264
Causal Arguments	p. 270
Cause and Effect	p. 271
Post Hoc Fallacy	p. 271
The Fallacy of Jumping from Correlation to Cause	p. 272
Control Groups	p. 275
	p. 281
Types of Studies	p. 282
Evaluating Causal Arguments	p. 286
Summary	p. 292
	p. 293
Glossary	p. 299
Index	p. 307
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