Title Critical thinking : an introduction to the basic skills / William Hughes, Jonathan Lavery, and Katheryn Doran

Edition Seventh edition Published Peterborough, Ontario ; Tonawanda, NY : Broadview Press, [2015]

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Description xv, 468 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents Reasoning and critical thinking -- Meaning and definition -- Clarifying meaning -- Reconstructing arguments -- Strategies for assessing arguments -- Assessing truth-claims -- Assessing relevance -- Assessing adequacy -- Deductive reasoning -- Inductive reasoning -- Scientific reasoning -- Moral reasoning -- Legal reasoning -- Arguing back -- Irrational techniques of persuasion -- Critiquing the media -- Writing and assessing argumentative essays -- Strategies for organizing an argumentative essay -- Appendix I: Paradoxes and puzzles -- Appendix II: Answers to self-tests Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Critical thinking -- Textbooks. Logic -- Textbooks. Genre/Form Textbooks. Textbooks. Author Doran, Katheryn, author Lavery, Jonathan Allen, 1965- author LC no. 2015452398 ISBN 9781554811977 (paperback) 155481197X (paperback) 9781554811991 1554811996

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