Critical Thinking 5th edition
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Critical Thinking 5th edition

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Critical Thinking 5th edition

About this book

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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Publisher
Advanced Reasoning Forum
Year
2018
Edition
5
eBook ISBN
9781938421334
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Creative Writing
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.

Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. To the Student
  3. To the Instructor
  4. The Fundamentals
  5. The Structure of Arguments
  6. Avoiding Bad Arguments
  7. Short Arguments for Analysis
  8. Analyzing Complex Arguments
  9. Reasoning from Experience
  10. Making Decisions
  11. Composing Good Arguments
  12. Writing Lesson 11
  13. Your Cartoon Writing Lesson
  14. More Cartoon Writing Lessons
  15. Reasoning in the Sciences
  16. Evaluating Reasoning
  17. Glossary
  18. Answers to Selected Exercises
  19. Index

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