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Published by Wadsworth, 2000
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- Title
- A Practical Study of Argument
- Author
- Govier, Trudy
- Publisher
- Wadsworth
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0534519768
- ISBN 13
- 9780534519766
- Edition
- 5th Edition.
- Item weight
- 1.653 pounds
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THE PRACTICAL STUDY OF ARGUMENT provides students with a practical understanding of argument with enriched examples while maintaining philosophical soundness. The fifth edition of this widely acclaimed text continues to provide an integration of formal and informal logic, and fallacies and arguments in a clearly presented and theoretically sensible fashion.
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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.
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