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Richard L Epstein, Michael Rooney
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This fifth edition of Critical Thinking by the noted logician Richard L. Epstein is practical, engaging, and easy to teach. Students enjoy and understand it because it is clear and has hundreds of examples using a cast of characters who reason as we do every day. More than 1, 000 exercises lead students to be able to reason well in their courses and their lives. Essay writing lessons and visual writing lessons, using the cast of characters, teach students that first comes clear thinking and then comes clear writing. A complete and comprehensive Instructor's Manual makes the text easy to teach and grade. New to this edition: chapters on explanations and reasoning in the sciences.• Over 1, 000 examples and exercises from daily life.• A dozen original writing lessons fully integrated with the text.• Unique cartoon writing lessons help students apply critical thinking to non-verbal situations.
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502
Index
scale,
fallacy
of,
363
tracing
the
cause
too
far
back,
304–306
scare
tactics,
460
truth
value,
3
science
compared
to
other
ways
of
knowing,
tu
quoque
,
82,
461
441–442
two
times
zero
is
still
zero,
269
scientific
method,
316–317,
411
two
wrongs
make
a
right,
208
selection
bias,
409
selective
attention,
290,
363
unbiased
sample.
See
representative
self-selection
bias,
409
sample.
shifting
the
burden
of
proof,
199,
216
uncontrolled
experiment:
cause-to-
slanters,
195,
216
effect,
321–322,
408–409
and
writing
good
arguments,
200,
373
uncontrolled
experiment:
effect-to-
slippery
slope
argument,
153–154,
215
cause,
322
smokescreen,
460
unnamed
sources,
67
“some”
claim,
172
unrepairable
arguments,
94
contradictory
of,
174
unstated
premise
or
conclusion.
sound
argument,
460
See
Guide
to
Repairing
Arguments.
standards,
up-player,
197
prescriptive
claims
and,
24,
100
subjectivity
and,
18–19
vague
generalities,
186–188
statistical
generalization,
280,
289
vague
sentence,
12–16
strawman,
118,
216
can
depend
on
context,
15
strong
argument,
39
individual
vs.
group,
18–19
vs.
valid
argument,
44–45,
124,
372
subjective
claims
and,
18–19
structural
fallacy,
213–214
valid
argument,
39
subjective
claim,
18
checking
with
diagrams,
176–177,
179–183
causal,
311
vs.
strong
argument,
44–45,
124,
372
confusing
with
objective
claim,
21
value
judgments,
24,
66
intersubjective
claim,
19
variation
in
a
population,
289–290
linking
behavior
to
thought,
94
“very
few”
claim,
187–188
vagueness
and,
18–19
violating
the
Principle
of
Rational
Discussion,
subjectivist
fallacy,
21,
26,
215
216,
sufficient
condition,
145
virtue,
7,
370
suspending
judgment,
61–62,
68,
76,
88,
89
synonym,
28
weak
argument,
38
showing
an
argument
is
weak,
45
teleological
explanation,
351–353
weaseler,
198
teleological
fallacy,
352
Wikipedia,
73
theory,
428
wisdom,
2
applicable,
429–432
wishful
thinking,
210
better,
431
confirming
a,
429–430
you
can’t
get
“ought”
from
“is”,
101
explanations
and,
435–436
good
—,
430–432
is
a
tool,
430
true?,
427
See
also
model.