TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bowell,Tracy
AU  - Kemp,Gary
TI  - Critical thinking: a concise guide 
SN  - 9780415471824 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - B809.2 .B69 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Critical thinking
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Language and logic
KW  - Reasoning
N1  - Includes glossary; Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the third edition -- Introduction and preview -- Introducing arguments -- Linguistic phenomena and rhetorical ploys -- Logic: deductive validity -- Logic: inductive force -- The practice of argument-reconstruction -- Issues in argument assessment -- Pseudo-reasoning -- Truth knowledge and belief
N2  - Critical thinking: a concise guide is a much-needed guide to argument analysis and a clear introduction to thinking clearly and rationally for oneself. Through precise and accessible discussion this book equips students with the essential skills required to tell a good argument from a bad one. This third edition has been revised and updated throughout, with new exercises, and up-to-date topical examples, including: "real-world" arguments; practical reasoning; understanding quantitative data, statistics, and the rhetoric used about them; scientific reasoning; and expanded discussion of conditionals, ambiguity, vagueness, slippery slope arguments, and arguments by analogy
ER  -