A Practical Study of Argument, International Edition

Govier, Trudy

ISBN 10: 1439035768 ISBN 13: 9781439035764

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1980

Synopsis

A PRACTICAL STUDY OF ARGUMENT, International Edition gives you the tools you need to understand informal logic and formulate a good argument. By focusing on real world examples and including helpful study tools such as exercises with answers, a glossary of common fallacies, chapter summaries, and a book-specific website, A PRACTICAL STUDY OF ARGUMENT, International Edition provides you with everything you need to master the material with ease.

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Product Description

Gives you the tools you need to understand informal logic and formulate a good argument. By focusing on real world examples and including helpful study tools such as exercises with answers, a glossary of common fallacies, chapter summaries, and a book-specific website, this title offers information you need to master the material.

Review

1. What Is an Argument? (And What Is Not?). 2. Pinning Down Argument Structure. 3. Looking at Language. 4. When Is an Argument a Good One? 5. Premises: What to Accept and Why. 6. Working on Relevance. 7. Deductive Arguments: Categorical Logic. 8. Deductive Arguments: Propositional Logic. 9. An Introduction to Inductive Arguments. 10. Causal Inductive Arguments. 11. Analogies: Reasoning from Case to Case. 12. Conductive Arguments and Counterconsiderations. Appendix A: A Summary of Fallacies. Appendix B: Selected Essays for Analysis. Answers to Selected Exercises. Index.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 1439035768
• ISBN 13: 9781439035764
• Binding: Misc. Supplies
• Number of pages: 512