Understanding arguments / Donald Evans and Humphrey Palmer.
By: Evans, Donald
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Contributor(s): Palmer, Humphrey.
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BookPublisher: Cardiff : Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Drake Educational Associates: University of Wales Press, Distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Humanities Press, 1986Edition: 2nd ed.Description: 339 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0708309143 (pbk.).Subject(s): LogicDDC classification: 168 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 168 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00008513 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book is for people who find themselves beset by arguments: persuasions open and hidden, put forward in books or on buses, blown up onto hoardings or piped right into the home by television and radio. Such arguments may need to be critically weighed and cautiously assessed, if the arguee is not to be taken for a ride. For such analysis, some introduction to logic is required. This book explains how to decide which arguments are sound and what makes the bad ones bad.
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Includes index.
True or false: relations between statements -- In or out: relations between groups -- Two for the price of one: a wider theory -- Defining terms to argue with -- Some famous bad arguments: a nest of fallacies.