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Thinking Well - A Logic And Critical Thinking Textbook

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Thinking Well - A Logic And Critical Thinking Textbook

The common title of this course is “Logic and Critical Thinking.” So, we can think about the course as having two main components: the study of formal logic and the study of the tools and strategies of critical thinking. This text is structured in a bit of a “sandwich”. Units on critical thinking and then formal logic, and then units on more critical thinking topics.

PhilosophyHumanities
Author
Andrew Lavin
Publisher
Butte College
Source
LibreTexts
License
CC BY
Language
EN
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Contents· 69 sections
  1. 01: Basic Concepts
  2. 1.02: Kinds of Inferences
  3. 1.03: Chapter 1 - Key Terms
  4. 1.E: Chapter One (Exercises)
  5. 02: Language Meaning and Definition
  6. 2.01: Breakdown of meaning
  7. 2.02: How does meaning work Definition and Concepts
  8. 2.03: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
  9. 2.04: Chapter 2 - Key Terms
  10. 2.E: Chapter Two (Exercises)
  11. 03: Argument Mapping
  12. 3.01: The Basics
  13. 3.02: Missing Assumptions
  14. 3.03: Objections
  15. 3.04: More Complex Arguments
  16. 3.05: Argument Mapping Conclusion
  17. 3.06: Beginning to Evaluate Arguments
  18. 3.07: Chapter 3 - Key Terms
  19. 3.E: Chapter Three (Exercises)
  20. 04: Intellectual Virtues and Vices
  21. 4.01: What are Virtues and Vices
  22. 4.02: Some Intellectual Virtues
  23. 4.03: Some Intellectual Vices
  24. 4.E: Chapter Four (Exercises)
  25. 05: What is Logic
  26. 5.01: Core Concepts
  27. 06: Categorical Logic
  28. 6.01: The Basics
  29. 6.02: Venn Diagrams
  30. 6.03: Categorical Syllogisms
  31. 6.04: Proving the validity of immediate inferences
  32. 6.05: Key Terms
  33. 07: Propositional Logic
  34. 7.01: Logical Entailment
  35. 7.02: Propositions and their Connectors
  36. 7.03: More Thoughts on Symbolization
  37. 7.04: Logical Operators as Truth Functions
  38. 7.05: Logical Analysis using Truth Tables
  39. 7.06: Conclusion
  40. 7.E: Chapter Six (Exercises)
  41. 08: Natural Deduction
  42. 8.01: What is it
  43. 8.02: Basic Rules of Implication
  44. 8.03: More Rules of Implication
  45. 8.04: Rules of Replacement
  46. 8.05: More Rules
  47. 8.06: Why Learn Natural Deduction
  48. 8.07: Conversational Implicature
  49. 8.E: Chapter Seven (Exercises)
  50. 09: Inductive Reasoning - hypothetical causal statistical and others
  51. 9.01: Hypothetical Reasoning
  52. 9.02: Causal Reasoning
  53. 9.03: Statistical Generalization
  54. 9.04: Analogical Reasoning
  55. 9.05: Fallacies of Induction
  56. 9.E: Chapter Eight (Exercises)
  57. 10: Ethical Reasoning and Evaluation
  58. 10.01: Ethics vs. Morality
  59. 10.02: Universalism vs. Relativism
  60. 10.03: Three Basic Systems of Morality
  61. 10.04: Levels of Evaluation
  62. 11: Mental Heuristics and Biases
  63. 11.01: Classical Economics
  64. 11.02: Heuristics
  65. 12: Identifying Good Sources of Information
  66. 12.01: Sources of Information
  67. 12.02: Specific Stories or Information
  68. 12.03: Sources for this chapter
  69. 13: Conclusion - Intellectual Honesty Intellectual Humility and Charity