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Critical Reasoning and Writing
- Author
- Noah Levin
- Publisher
- Golden West College
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Language
- EN
- Category
- English
Contents· 38 sections
- 01: Introduction to Critical Thinking Reasoning and Logic
- 1.01: Prelude to Chapter
- 1.02: Introduction and Thought Experiments- The Trolley Problem
- 1.03: Truth and Its Role in Argumentation - Certainty Probability and Monty Hall
- 1.04: Distinction of Proof from Verification Our Biases and the Forer Effect
- 1.05: The Scientific Method
- 1.06: Diagramming Thoughts and Arguments - Analyzing News Media
- 1.07: Creating a Philosophical Outline
- 02: Language - Meaning and Definition
- 2.01: Techniques of Defining- Semantics vs Syntax and Avoiding more Ambiguity
- 2.02: Criteria for Framing Definitions- Its all about Context and Audience
- 2.03: Defining Terms Appropriately
- 2.04: Cognitive and Emotive Meaning - Abortion and Capital Punishment
- 2.05: Functions of Language and Precision in Speech
- 2.06: Defining Terms- Types and Purposes of Definitions
- 03: Informal Fallacies - Mistakes in Reasoning
- 3.01: Classification of Fallacies - All the Ways we Say Things Wrong
- 3.02: Fallacies of Evidence
- 3.03: Fallacies of Weak Induction
- 3.04: Fallacies of Ambiguity and Grammatical Analogy
- 3.05: The Detection of Fallacies in Ordinary Language
- 3.06: Searching Your Essays for Fallacies
- 04: Deductive Arguments
- 4.01: Prelude to Deductive Arguments
- 4.02: Statements and Symbolizing
- 4.03: Propositions Inferences and Judgments
- 4.04: Validity and Soundness
- 4.05: Commons Forms of Arguments
- 4.06: Formal Fallacies
- 4.07: Formalizing your Arguments
- 05: Inductive Arguments
- 5.01: Prelude to Inductive Arguments
- 5.02: Cogency and Strong Arguments
- 5.03: Causality and Scientific Reasoning
- 5.04: Analogy
- 5.05: Statistical Reasoning- Bayes Theorem
- 5.06: Legal Reasoning and Moral Reasoning
- 5.07: Editing Your Final Essay