Critical thinking : an introduction to analytical reading and reasoning / Larry Wright

Author: Wright, Larry, 1937-
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Copyright Date: ©2013
Edition: 2nd ed.
Physical Description: vi, 410 pages ; 25 cm

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Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE PARAPHRASING -- ch. 1 The Bare-Bones Paraphrase -- Introduction -- The Concept of Paraphrase -- Reading and Paraphrase -- Technique and Vocabulary -- Human Understanding -- Subtler Issues -- Two Principles of Paraphrasing -- Things to Keep in Mind -- Supplemental Exercises -- Answers -- ch. 2 Reading For Structure: Dependency and Subordination -- Complexity -- Technique and Vocabulary -- Useful Patterns -- Tricks for Tough Cases -- Systematic Features -- Trial and Error Exercise -- Supplemental Exercises -- Answers -- ch. 3 Reading For Reasoning: Paraphrasing Arguments -- Reading for a Particular Purpose -- Reading for Reasoning -- A Shortcut: Schematizing Directly from a Passage -- Charitable Schematizing -- Supplemental Exercises -- Answers -- pt. TWO ANALYZING REASONING -- ch. 4 Argument Analysis: Answering Questions -- Introduction -- The Purpose of Analysis -- The Fundamental Concepts: Questions and Answers -- Refining the Apparatus and Exercising Our Skills. and Evaluating Arguments: How Good Are the Reasons? -- Interim Summary: What We Have Learned So Far -- Dealing with Disagreement -- Supplemental Exercises -- Answers -- ch. 5 Diagnostic Arguments: Reasoning by Explaining -- Introduction -- Diagnostic Questions -- Diagnostic Concepts -- Objects and Resources: Different Kinds of Support -- Refinements -- Diagnostic Investigation -- Supplemental Exercises -- Answers -- ch. 6 Diagnostic Patterns -- Introduction -- Cause and Correlation -- Testimony -- Sampling -- Counting, Cases: Induction by Enumeration Circumstantial Evidence -- Supplemental Exercises -- Answers -- ch. 7 Further Applications: Prediction and Recommendation -- Introduction -- Prediction -- Recommendation -- Supplemental Exercises -- Answers -- ch. 8 Fallacies -- Introduction -- Fallacies of Construction -- Critical Fallacies -- Supplemental Exercises -- Answers -- Appendix Deduction -- Introduction -- Semantic Conflict -- Semantic Evaluation -- Deductive Arguments -- Structure -- Tests and Crieteria -- Relative Strength -- Summary.

Subject(s)

Critical thinking

ISBN

9780199796229
019979622X

Note

Includes index.

Source of Acquisition

Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries); 2014

Endowment Note

Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)

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