Research Catalog
A practical study of argument / Trudy Govier.
- Title
- A practical study of argument / Trudy Govier.
- Author
- Govier, Trudy.
- Publication
- Belmont, CA : Cengage Learning, c2010.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Request in advance | BC177 .G65 2010 | Off-site |
Holdings
Details
- Description
- xiii, 417 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This useful handbook addresses more than 60 common fallacies of the challenge of argument, pinning down argument structure, working on relevance, conductiotive argument and counterconsiderations.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- What is an argument? (And what is not?) -- Pinning down argument structure -- Looking at language -- Good arguments : an introduction -- Premises : what to accept and why -- Working on relevance -- Deductive arguments : categorical logic -- Deductive arguments : propositional logic -- An introduction to inductive arguments -- Causal inductive arguments -- Analogies : reasoning from case to case -- Conductive arguments and counterconsiderations.
- ISBN
- 9780495603405 (pbk.)
- 0495603406
- LCCN
- ^^2008942954
- OCLC
- 244063425
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library