Critical thinking
Subtitle: an introduction to reasoning well
By: Jamie Carlin Watson and Robert Arp
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780826424921; 9780826439512
Subjects: Reasoning; Critical thinking; Logic
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The basics of good reasoning; title: The basic tools of reasoning; title: Evaluating arguments; title: Deductive reasoning; title: Categorical logic; title: Basic propositional logic; title: Truth tables; title: Rules of inference; title: Inductive reasoning; title: Probability and induction; title: Generalization, analogy, and causation; title: Inference to the best explanation; title: Informal fallacies; title: Graduate school entrance exams; title: Reasoning on the GRE, LSAT, GMAT, and MCAT.