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Making up your mind : a textbook in critical thinking / Robert Mutti.

Title: Making up your mind : a textbook in critical thinking / Robert Mutti.
Author: Mutti, Robert, 1947-
Publication: Peterborough, Ont. ; Orchard Park, NY : Broadview Press, c2002.

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Description

ix, 179 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Focused text directed consistently towards teaching students to write their own arguments so as to better understand their own thoughts and present them to others in a clear written form.

Series Statement

The Broadview library of logic and critical thinking

Uniform Title

Broadview library of logic and critical thinking.

Subject

Genre/Form

Textbooks

Note

Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Assertions -- Implication -- Contradiction -- Conditionals and universal assertions -- Prescriptive assertions -- Explanations -- Arguments -- Validity, deduction, and induction -- Unstated premises -- Relevance -- Basic fallacies of relevance -- Fallacies of emotional appeal -- Sources of evidence -- Causal arguments -- Arguments from analogy.

ISBN

1551114275 (pbk.)

OCLC

49727339

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library