Kahane, Howard,  1928-- <br/><br/>
Logic and contemporary rhetoric :  the use of reason in everyday life / 
Howard Kahane and Nancy Cavender. 
 - 8th ed. 
 - Belmont, CA :  Wadsworth Publishing company,  [c1998] 
 - 369 p.:  ill.;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes 
<br/><br/>Contents: Good and Bad Reasoning --Reasoning and Arguments --Exposition and Argument --Cogent Reasoning --Two Basic Kinds of Valid Arguments--Some Wrong Ideas about Cogent Reasoning--Background Beliefs --Kinds of Background Beliefs --Worldviews or Philosophies--Insufficiently Grounded Beliefs --Two Vital Kinds of Background Beliefs --Science to the Rescue --More on Deduction and Induction--Deductive Validity --Deductive Invalidity--Syllogisms --Indirect Proofs--Tautologies, Contradictions, and Contingent Statements--Inductive Validity (Correctness) and Invalidity (Incorrectness) --A Misconception about Deduction and Induction --Reasoning Cogently versus Being Right in Fact --Fallacious Reasoning--1 --Appeal to Authority --Inconsistency --Straw Man --False Dilemma and the Either-Or Fallacy --Begging the Question --Questionable Premise--Questionable Statement --Suppressed (Overlooked) Evidence --Tokenism --Fallacious Reasoning--2 --Ad Hominem Argument --Two Wrongs Make a Right --Irrelevant Reason (Non Sequitur) --Equivocation --Appeal to Ignorance --Composition and Division --Slippery Slope --Fallacious Reasoning--3 --Hasty Conclusion --Small Sample --Unrepresentative Sample--Questionable Cause --Questionable Analogy --Questionable Statistics --Questionable Uses of Good Statistics --Polls: An Important Special Case --False Charge of Fallacy --Psychological Impediments to Cogent Reasoning: Shooting Ourselves in the Foot --Loyalty, Provincialism, and the Herd Instinct. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0534524702 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Reasoning<br/>Fallacies (Logic)<br/>Judgement (Logic)<br/>Mass media
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BC 177  / .K34 1998