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| The Basics | |
| Critical Thinking | |
| The Importance of Critical Thinking | |
| What Is Critical Thinking? Obstacles to Critical Thinking | |
| Looking Ahead: Issues and Disputes | |
| Glossary | |
| Additional Exercises | |
| Language | |
| What Is Language? Functions of Language | |
| Meaning in Language | |
| Definitions | |
| Glossary | |
| Additional Exercises | |
| Argument | |
| Argument | |
| Argument Identification | |
| Argument Analysis | |
| Glossary | |
| Additional Exercises | |
| Argument Analysis I: Representing Argument Structure | |
| The Goal of Argument Analysis | |
| Elementary Procedures | |
| Intermediate Challenges | |
| Glossary | |
| Additional Exercises | |
| Argument Analysis Ii: Paraphrasing Arguments | |
| Paraphrasing | |
| Advanced Applications | |
| Additional Exercises | |
| Deductive Reasoning | |
| Evaluating Deductive Arguments I: Categorical Logic | |
| Deductive and Inductive Reasoning | |
| Argument Form | |
| Categorical Logic | |
| Glossary | |
| Additional Exercises | |
| Evaluating Deductive Arguments Ii: Truth Functional Logic | |
| Truth Functional Analysis of Logical Operators | |
| Argument Forms | |
| Testing for Validity with Truth Tables | |
| Glossary | |
| Additional Exercises | |
| Inductive Reasoning | |
| Evaluating Inductive Arguments I: Generalization and Analogy | |
| Assessing Inductive Strength | |
| Reasoning by Analogy | |
| Glossary | |
| Exercises | |
| Evaluating Inductive Arguments II: Hypothetical Reasoning and Burden of Proof | |
| Presumption and the "Burden of Proof" | |
| Reasoning Hypothetically | |
| Causal Reasoning | |
| Glossary | |
| Additional Exercises | |
| Evaluating Whole Arguments | |
| Evaluating Premises: Self-Evidence, Consistency, Indirect Proof | |
| Necessary Truths | |
| Contingent Claims | |
| Beyond "Self-Evidence" | |
| Glossary | |
| Additional Exercises | |
| Informal Fallacies I: Assumptions, Language, Relevance, Authority | |
| Fallacious Assumptions | |
| Fallacies of Language | |
| Fallacies of Relevance | |
| Fallacious Appeals to Authority | |
| Glossary | |
| Additional Exercises | |
| Informal Fallacies II: Inductive Reasoning | |
| Polling, Probability and Statistics | |
| Analogy and Burden of Proof | |
| Causality | |
| A Final Word of Caution | |
| Glossary | |
| Additional Exercises | |
| Making Your Case: Argumentative Composition | |
| The Issue Statement | |
| Research and the Media | |
| The Thesis Statement | |
| Argument Design | |
| The Presentation | |
| Glossary | |
| Additional Exercises | |
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