Critical Thinking : an Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method. 9781789126334, 1789126339
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English Pages 397 Year 2018
Table of contents :
Intro
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEDICATION
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
TO THE STUDENT
Part One-DEDUCTIVE LOGIC
Chapter 1-INTRODUCTION: THE AIMS OF LOGIC
Chapter 2-DEDUCTION AND INFORMAL ARGUMENT
Chapter 3-VALIDITY AND FORM
Chapter 4-CONDITIONAL ARGUMENT
Chapter 5-TRUTH-TABLES AND CHAIN ARGUMENTS
Chapter 6-ARGUMENTS INVOLVING ALTERNATIVES
Chapter 7-THE FINER STRUCTURE OF PROPOSITIONS
Chapter 8-THE SYLLOGISM
Part Two-LANGUAGE
Chapter 9-THE USES OF LANGUAGE
Chapter 10-AMBIGUITY
Chapter 11-DEFINITION
Chapter 12-ASSORTED FALLACIES
Part Three-INDUCTION AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD Chapter 13-THE GROUNDS OF BELIEFChapter 14-INQUIRY AT THE COMMON-SENSE LEVEL
Chapter 15-INDUCTIVE PROCEDURES I
Chapter 16-INDUCTIVE PROCEDURES II
Chapter 17-SCIENTIFIC METHOD
Chapter 18-SCIENTIFIC DATA
CHAPTER 19-SCIENTIFIC THEORY
Appendix-GENERAL THEORY OF THE SYLLOGISM
GLOSSARY
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
HINTS FOR SOLUTION OF EXERCISES IN REASONING (FIRST SERIES, P. 10)
HINTS FOR SOLUTION OF EXERCISES IN REASONING (SECOND SERIES, P. 142)
ANSWERS TO QUESTION 1, PAGE 262
ANSWERS TO COMPREHENSION TESTS
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