Porter, Burton Frederick.

The voice of reason : fundamentals of critical thinking / Fundamentals of critical thinking Burton F. Porter. - New York : Oxford University Press, c2002. - xvii, 365 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

International edition : issued in 2010

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Critical thinking - 2. The way words work - 3. Language and definition - 4. Disagreements, claims, and reasons - 5. Common mistakes in thinking - 6. More subtle errors of thought - 7. Reasoning in a formal way - 8. Patterns of deductive thinking - 9. Inductive thinking: Identifying, causes, drawing analogies - 10. Deriving generalizations, forming hypotheses - 11. Discourse communities - 12. Arguments in the disciplines.

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Critical thinking.

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