Loose Leaf for How to Think About Weird Things with Connect Access Card

by Schick, Theodore

• ISBN13: 9781259659515
• ISBN10: 1259659518
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2015-03-16
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

This concise and engaging text teaches the basic principles of good reasoning through an examination of widely held beliefs about the paranormal, the supernatural, and the mysterious. By explaining what distinguishes knowledge from opinion, science from pseudoscience, and evidence from hearsay, How to Think About Weird Things helps the reader develop the skills needed to tell the true from the false and the reasonable from the unreasonable.

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