What is included with this book?
Introducing arguments | |
Beginning to think critically | |
Aspects of meaning | |
Definitions | |
Necessary and sufficient conditions | |
Primary and secondary connotation | |
Generalisations | |
Quantifiers | |
Standard form | |
Identifying premises and conclusions | |
Extraneous material | |
Arguments and explanations | |
Extended arguments | |
Linguistic Phenomena, Rhetoric | |
Ambiguity | |
Vagueness | |
Irony | |
Metaphor | |
Rhetorical questions | |
Rhetorical ploys spin | |
Logic: Validity | |
The Principle of Charity | |
Truth | |
Deductive Validity | |
Argument Trees | |
Conditional Propositions | |
Deductive Soundness | |
The connection to formal logic | |
Logic: Inductive Force | |
Inductive force 'all', 'most' and 'some' | |
Soft generalisations | |
Inductive Soundess | |
Probability in the premises | |
Arguments with multiple probabilistic premises | |
Inductive force in extended arguments | |
Conditional Probability in the conclusion | |
Evidence | |
Inductive inferences | |
A programme for assessment | |
Argument Reconstruction | |
Extraneous material | |
Defusing the rhetoric | |
Logical streamlining | |
Implicit and explicit | |
Connecting premises | |
Covering generalisations | |
Relevance; Ambiguity and Vagueness | |
More on generalisations | |
Practical reasoning Balancing costs, benefits, and probabilities | |
Explanations as conclusions | |
Causal generalisations | |
A shortcut | |
Argument Assessment | |
Rational persuasiveness | |
Some strategies for logical assessment | |
Refutation by Counterexample | |
Avoiding the 'who is to say' criticism | |
Don't merely label the position | |
Argument commentary | |
A complete example | |
Commentary on the commentary | |
Pseudo Reasoning | |
Fallacies | |
Faulty argument techniques | |
Arguing from analogy | |
Arguments from authority | |
Truth, Knowledge and Belief | |
Truth and relativity | |
True for me, true for you | |
Theories | |
Truth, value and morality | |
Belief, justification and truth | |
Justification without arguments | |
Knowledge | |
Justification failure | |
Knowledge and rational persuasiveness | |
Philosophical directions | |
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