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Art of Questioning, The: An Introduction to Critical Thinking

By Daniel Flage

ISBN-10: 0-13-093699-5

ISBN-13: 978-0-13-093699-8What's this?

Published by Prentice Hall

© 2004

Pub. Date: Jun 17, 2003

Format: Paper

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Table of Contents

(NOTE: Each section begins with an Introduction.)

I. SOME USES OF LANGUAGE.

 1. The Informative Function of Language.

 2. The Directive Function of Language.

 3. The Emotive Function of Language.

 4. Descriptive Passages.

 5. Explanations.

II. ARGUMENTS.

 6. Deduction.

 7. Induction.

 8. Recognizing Arguments.

 9. Tree Diagrams for Arguments.

III. CHECKING THE EVIDENCE.

10. Observations: When Should Seeing Be Believing?

11. Testimony: Whom Do You Trust?

12. Values and Obligations: What Should You Do?

IV. CATEGORICAL SYLLOGISMS.

13. Categorical Propositions.

14. Categorical Syllogisms.

15. Rules for Judging Validity.

16. Venn Diagrams for Judging Validity.

17. Missing Premises and Conclusions.

18. Conversion, Obversion, and Squares of Opposition.

19. Living in the “Real World.”

V. PROPOSITIONAL ARGUMENTS.

20. Simple and Compound Statements.

21. Truth Tables.

22. Common Propositional Argument Forms.

23. Enthymemes, Argument Chains, and Other Hazards.

24. Some Logical Equivalences.

VI. INDUCTIVE ARGUMENTS.

25. Analogies.

26. Generalizations and Surveys.

27. Hypotheses, Explanations, and Argument to the Best Explanation.

VII. INFORMAL FALLACIES.

28. Fallacies of Ambiguity.

29. Fallacies of Relevance.

30. Fallacies of Presumption.

31. Fallacies of Weak Induction.

VIII. LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS.

32. How to Read an Essay.

33. How to Write an Argumentative Essay.

Solutions to the Odd Numbered Problems.

Glossary.

Index.

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