Foundations of critical thinking / Royce P. Jones.
By: Jones, Royce P
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Publisher: Fort Worth, TX : Harcourt College Publishers, c2001Description: xvii, 348 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0155072757 (pbk.); 9780155072756 (pbk.).Subject(s): Critical thinking![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Critical thinking and an overview of what's to come -- 1. Introduction to arguments -- 2. Separating good arguments from bad -- 3. Terms -- 4. Grounds of inference I: facts and hypotheses -- 5. Grounds of inference II: facts, generalizations, and principles -- 6. Grounds of inference III: analogies - 7. Grounds of inference IV: causal reasoning -- 8. Grounds of inference V: criteria and standards -- 9. The subjects and kinds of disputes -- 10. Negotiations and resolutions -- 11. Tactical maneuvers -- 12. Categorical logic -- 13. Propositional logic I: truth functional propositions -- 14. Propositional logic II: determining validity in propositional logic -- Appendix I: Spotting arguments and writing argumentative essays -- Appendix II: Achieving clarity through definitions -- Appendix III: Informal fallacies and tactical maneuvers: fifty arguments for analysis and discussion -- Appendix IV: Extended exercises in the examination of reasoning.
Thinking Skills : 9694