A Practical Study of Argument by Trudy Govier
This book should be of interest to introductry courses of informal logic and critical thinking.
A Practical Study of Argument
Summary
The text is widely recognized for its solid treatment of such basic topics as the nature of argument structure, premise acceptability, propositional logic, categorical logic, analogy, and fallacies.
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Table of Contents
What is an argument? (and what is not?). Pinning down argument structure. When is an argument a good one?. Looking at language. Premises: What to accept and why. Working on relevance. Those tidy deductions: categorical logic. Those tidy deductions: Propositional logic. Analogies: reasoning from case to case. Conductive and inductive arguments. Reflective analysis of longer works. Appendices. Index.
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CIN0534147127G
9780534147129
0534147127
A Practical Study of Argument by Trudy Govier
Used - Good
Paperback
Cengage Learning, Inc
19910926
448
N/A
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