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| 040 | _cSt. Andrew's Theological Seminary | ||
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_aBC 177 _b.K34 1998 |
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_aKahane, Howard, _d1928-- |
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_aLogic and contemporary rhetoric : _bthe use of reason in everyday life / _cHoward Kahane and Nancy Cavender. |
| 250 | _a8th ed. | ||
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_aBelmont, CA : _bWadsworth Publishing company, _c[c1998] |
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| 300 |
_a369 p.: _bill.; _c23 cm. |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes | ||
| 505 | _aContents: | ||
| 505 | _aGood 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. | ||
| 650 | _aReasoning | ||
| 650 | _aFallacies (Logic) | ||
| 650 | 4 | _aJudgement (Logic) | |
| 650 | 4 | _aMass media | |
| 700 | 1 | _aCavender, Nancy | |
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