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Logic and contemporary rhetoric : the use of reason in everyday life / Howard Kahane, Nancy Cavender.

By: Kahane, Howard, 1928-.
Contributor(s): Cavender, Nancy.
Publisher: Australia : Thomson / Wadsworth, c2006Edition: 10th ed.Description: xiii, 393 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0534626041 (pbk.).Subject(s): Reasoning | Fallacies (Logic) | Judgment (Logic) | Mass mediaDDC classification: 160
Contents:
1. Good and bad reasoning -- 2. More on deduction and induction -- 3. Fallacious reasoning 1 -- 4. Fallacious reasoning 2 -- 5. Fallacious reasoning 3 -- 6. Psychological impediments to cogent reasoning: shooting ourselves in the foot -- 7. Language -- 8. Evaluating extended arguments -- 9. Writing cogent (and persuasive) essays -- 10. Advertising: selling the product -- 11. Managing the news -- 12. Textbooks: managing worldviews -- Appendix: More on cogent reasoning.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Good and bad reasoning -- 2. More on deduction and induction -- 3. Fallacious reasoning 1 -- 4. Fallacious reasoning 2 -- 5. Fallacious reasoning 3 -- 6. Psychological impediments to cogent reasoning: shooting ourselves in the foot -- 7. Language -- 8. Evaluating extended arguments -- 9. Writing cogent (and persuasive) essays -- 10. Advertising: selling the product -- 11. Managing the news -- 12. Textbooks: managing worldviews -- Appendix: More on cogent reasoning.