Moore, Brooke Noel.

Critical thinking / Brooke Noel Moore, Richard Parker. - 9th ed. - Boston : McGraw Hill, c2009. - xix, 537 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Includes index.

Ch. 1: Critical Thinking Basics. - Ch. 2: Two kinds of reasoning. - Ch. 3: Clear Thinking, Critical Thinking, and Clear Writing. - Ch. 4: Credibility. - Ch. 5: Persuasion through Rhetoric: Common Devices and Techniques. - Ch. 6: More Rhetorical Devices: Psychological and Related Fallacies. - Ch. 7: More Fallacies. - Ch. 8: Deductive Arguments I: Categorical Logic. - Ch. 9: Deductive Arguments II: Truth-Functional Logic. - Ch. 10: Three kinds of inductive arguments. - Ch. 11: Causal Explanation. - Ch. 12: Moral, Legal, and Aesthetic Reasoning. - Appendix 1. Essays for analysis (and a few other items). - Appendix 2. The scrapebook of unusual issues.

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