Rational episodes
Subtitle: logic for the intermittently reasonable
By: by Keith M. Parsons.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781591027300
Subjects: Logic
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface for instructors; title: Preface for students (you really should read it); title: What is logic about?; title: Sentential logic basics; title: Sentential logic proofs; title: More sentential logic : contradictions, tautologies and assumptions; title: Predicate logic basics; title: Proofs in predicate logic; title: Probability : the basic rules of life; title: The theorem of Dr. Bayes; title: Probability illusions : why we are so bad at inductive reasoning; title: Studies have shown ... or have they?; title: Inference to the best explanation; title: Rhetoric : the art of persuasion; title: Won't get fooled again (fallacies and other foibles); title: Spin, spin, spin (or how not to be a sucker); title: Everything you know is wrong! : pseudoscience and bogus scholarship.