Argumentation
Subtitle: understanding and shaping arguments
By: James A. Herrick ; consulting editor, Robert S. Iltis.
Contributors: Iltis, Robert S.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Strata Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: State College, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781891136177
Subjects: Reasoning; Fallacies (Logic); Critical thinking
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Goals, skills, and functions of argumentation; title: An introduction to argumentation; title: The elements of arguments; title: Tools for analyzing arguments; title: The conditions of constructive argumentation; title: Ethical advocacy; title: Reasonable arguments, reasonable people; title: Support : the content of arguments; title: Evaluating evidence; title: Locating and evaluating sources of evidence; title: Using statistics as evidence; title: Using testimony as evidence; title: Validity : the structure of arguments; title: Validity in conditional and enumeration arguments; title: Validity in categorical arguments; title: Linguistic consistency and the language of argument; title: definition in argument; title: Ambiguity, equivocation, and other problems of language; title: Types and tests of arguments; title: analogies and examples; title: Reasoning about causes; title: Moral and practical arguments; title: Essential nature arguments; title: Fallacies and appeals; title: Developing and adapting your case; title: Policy case construction; title: Adapting arguments to an audience.