October 2014
Beginner
248 pages
7h 59m
English
Content preview from A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking, 2nd Edition
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INDEX
- Ad hominem
- Advertisement
- claims in, thinking about
- definitions in
- meaning in
- as testimonial evidence
- Affirming consequent
- Alternatives
- acceptability of disjunctions
- criticizing reasoning about
- direct objections to
- exclusive disjunctions
- false disjunctions
- identification of
- identifying and responding to
- meaning of disjunctions
- reasoning about
- reasoning by denying disjunct
- Analog(ies)
- in abstract
- acceptability of
- analogical premise
- analogues
- comparison question
- perfect
- reasoning by
- reasoning with models or maps
- reasoning with samples
- relevance question
- relevant property
- representational
- validity of
- Appeal
- to emotion
- to ignorance
- to relativism
- to tradition
- Appropriate testimony
- Argument. See also Conclusions; Premises
- analyzing of
- assertions in
- conclusion
- diagramming
- evaluation of
- indicator words
- premises
- reasoning in form of
- sound
- sub-argument
- valid
- without indicator words
- written
- Argument of Disagreement
- Assertions
- in argument
- assertion test
- causal
- Autonomy, critical thinking and
- Bad question
- Belief
- clarifying
- on epistemic reasons
- freedom of
- knowledge and
- and prejudice
- Biconditionals, use of
- Causal assertions
- Causal claims, reasoning with
- Causal conditions. See also Conditions
- concomitant variation
- definition
- discovering
- experiments and simulations
- necessary
- necessary and sufficient, discovering of
- reasoning about
- sufficient
- Clarification questions, open-ended
- Cognitive visual illusions
- Coin-flip method
- Common ground
- factual
- linguistic ...
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