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100	1		_aVan Cleave, Matthew _eauthor
245	0	0	_aIntroduction to Logic and Critical Thinking _cMatthew Van Cleave
264		2	_bOpen Textbook Library
264		1	_bMatthew J. Van Cleave
300			_a1 online resource
490	0		_aOpen textbook library.
505	0		_aChapter 1: Reconstructing and analyzing arguments -- 1.1 What is an argument? -- 1.2 Identifying arguments -- 1.3 Arguments vs. explanations -- 1.4 More complex argument structures -- 1.5 Using your own paraphrases of premises and conclusions to reconstruct arguments in standard form -- 1.6 Validity -- 1.7 Soundness -- 1.8 Deductive vs. inductive arguments -- 1.9 Arguments with missing premises -- 1.10 Assuring, guarding, and discounting -- 1.11 Evaluative language -- 1.12 Evaluating a real-life argument -- Chapter 2: Formal methods of evaluating arguments -- 2.1 What is a formal method of evaluation and why do we need them? -- 2.2 Propositional logic and the four basic truth functional connectives -- 2.3 Negation and disjunction -- 2.4 Using parentheses to translate complex sentences -- 2.5 "Not both" and "neither nor" -- 2.6 The truth table test of validity -- 2.7 Conditionals -- 2.8 "Unless" -- 2.9 Material equivalence -- 2.10 Tautologies, contradictions, and contingent statements -- 2.11 Proofs and the 8 valid forms of inference -- 2.12 How to construct proofs -- 2.13 Short review of propositional logic -- 2.14 Categorical logic -- 2.15 The Venn test of validity for immediate categorical inferences -- 2.16 Universal statements and existential commitment -- 2.17 Venn validity for categorical syllogisms -- Chapter 3: Evaluating inductive arguments and probabilistic and statistical fallacies -- 3.1 Inductive arguments and statistical generalizations -- 3.2 Inference to the best explanation and the seven explanatory virtues -- 3.3 Analogical arguments -- 3.4 Causal arguments -- 3.5 Probability -- 3.6 The conjunction fallacy -- 3.7 The base rate fallacy -- 3.8 The small numbers fallacy -- 3.9 Regression to the mean fallacy -- 3.10 Gambler's fallacy -- Chapter 4: Informal fallacies -- 4.1 Formal vs. informal fallacies -- 4.1.1 Composition fallacy -- 4.1.2 Division fallacy -- 4.1.3 Begging the question fallacy -- 4.1.4 False dichotomy -- 4.1.5 Equivocation -- 4.2 Slippery slope fallacies -- 4.2.1 Conceptual slippery slope -- 4.2.2 Causal slippery slope -- 4.3 Fallacies of relevance -- 4.3.1 Ad hominem -- 4.3.2 Straw man -- 4.3.3 Tu quoque -- 4.3.4 Genetic -- 4.3.5 Appeal to consequences -- 4.3.6 Appeal to authority -- Answers to exercisesGlossary/Index
520	0		_aThis is an introductory textbook in logic and critical thinking. The goal of thetextbook is to provide the reader with a set of tools and skills that will enablethem to identify and evaluate arguments. The book is intended for anintroductory course that covers both formal and informal logic. As such, it is nota formal logic textbook, but is closer to what one would find marketed as a"critical thinking textbook."
542	1		_fAttribution
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource
650		0	_aHumanities _vTextbooks
650		0	_aPhilosophy _vTextbooks
710	2		_aOpen Textbook Library _edistributor
856	4	0	_uhttps://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/457 _zAccess online version
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