02463cam a2200409 a 4500 15598444 OSt 20150408114040.0 090126s2010 enka b 001 0 eng 2009002265 9780415471824 (hardback : alk. paper) 0415471826 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780415471831 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0415471834 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780203874134 (ebook) 0203874137 (ebook) (OCoLC)ocn244057390 DLC DLC BTCTA BAKER YDXCP BWKUK BWK BWX NLGGC ALAUL DLC B809.2 .B69 2010 160 22 Bowell, Tracy, 1965- 15198 Critical thinking : a concise guide / Tracy Bowell and Gary Kemp. 3rd ed. London ; New York : Routledge, 2010. x, 294 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. 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. 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. Critical thinking. Critical thinking Study and teaching. 4246 Language and logic. 8637 Reasoning. 15199 Kemp, Gary, 1960 Oct. 15- 15200 ddc BOOK 23797 258297 0 2013-03-10 0 0 160 B T C 2012-05-30 CL 1004000000115 CL 2013-03-10 00:00:00 BOOK ddc 0 0 2013-03-10 0 0 160 B T C 2012-05-30 CL 1004000000114 CL 2013-03-10 00:00:00 BOOK ddc 0