TY - BOOK AU - Kemp, Gary AU - Bowell, Tracy TI - Critical thinking : a concise guide SN - 9780415471831 U1 - 160 BOW PY - 2010/// CY - London ; New York PB - Routledge KW - Language and logic KW - Critical thinking - Study and teaching KW - Critical thinking KW - Reasoning N1 -

Includes glossary. Includes bibliographical references and index.

; Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the third edition -- Introduction and preview -- Introducing arguments -- Linguistic phenomena and rhetorical ploys -- Logic: deductive validity -- Logic: inductive force -- The practice of argument-reconstruction -- Issues in argument assessment -- Pseudo-reasoning -- Truth knowledge and belief N2 - Critical thinking: a concise guide is a much-needed guide to argument analysis and a clear introduction to thinking clearly and rationally for oneself. Through precise and accessible discussion this book equips students with the essential skills required to tell a good argument from a bad one. This third edition has been revised and updated throughout, with new exercises, and up-to-date topical examples, including: "real-world" arguments; practical reasoning; understanding quantitative data, statistics, and the rhetoric used about them; scientific reasoning; and expanded discussion of conditionals, ambiguity, vagueness, slippery slope arguments, and arguments by analogy ER -