How to Think Straight
eBook - ePub

How to Think Straight

An Introduction to Critical Reasoning

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  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

How to Think Straight

An Introduction to Critical Reasoning

About this book

Practical reasoning and clear thinking are essential for everyone if we are to make sense of the information we receive each day. Being able to quickly know the difference between valid and invalid arguments, the contradictory versus the contrary, vagueness and ambiguity, contradiction and self-contradiction, the truthful and the fallacious, separates clear thinkers from the crowd. How to Think Straight lays the foundation for critical reasoning by showing many ways in which our thinking goes awry. Celebrated philosopher Antony Flew entertainingly instructs on the many and varied faults that occur in argument, the power of reason, how to challenge assertions and find evidence, and how not to be persuaded by half-truths. Flew also examines poor reasoning, and why we should be concerned with finding the truth. Lucid, terse, and sensible, with study questions and exercises to help along the way, this enlightening second edition will help you develop the skills necessary to argue and reason effectively by following a few simple, easy-to-remember directions.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Epigram
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. 1. The Basic Equipment
  8. 2. If/Then and All/None
  9. 3. Evasion and Falsification
  10. 4. Motives and Grounds
  11. 5. Minding Our Language
  12. 6. Figuring
  13. 7. A Chapter of Errors
  14. 8. The Final Foreword
  15. Selected Bibliography
  16. Index of Personal Names
  17. Index of Ideas
  18. Back Cover