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Author Schick, Theodore, author

Title How to think about weird things : critical thinking for a new age / Theodore Schick, Jr., Muhlenberg Collrge, Lewis Vaughn ; foreword by Martin Gardner
Edition Seventh edition
Published New York : McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., [2014]

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Description xvii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary "... Teaches the basic principles of good reasoning through an examination of widely held beliefs about the paranormal, the supernatural, and the mysterious. By explaining what distinguishes knowledge from opinion, science from pseudoscience, and evidence from hearsay, How to Think about Weird Things helps the reader develop the skills needed to tell the true from the false and the reasonable from the unreasonable." -- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Critical thinking.
Curiosities and wonders.
Author Vaughn, Lewis, author
LC no. 2012043043
ISBN 9780078038365 (alk. paper)
0078038367 (alk. paper)