The voice of reason : fundamentals of critical thinking
"The Voice of Reason examines the traditional elements of the field and also explores new ground. The first section of the book elucidates the relationship between thought and language, explaining how words function. It discusses meaning, connotation, vagueness, ambiguity, and definition, identifying the linguistic elements that can produce mistakes in thinking. The next section describes the rules of systematic reasoning, examining such topics as truth, relevance, and adequacy; deductive logic (categorical, hypothetical, and disjunctive); and induction (cause and effect, analogy, generalization, and hypothesis). Sixteen fallacies in thinking are also described through extensive illustrations and applications
1 online resource (xvii, 365 pages : illustrations)
9780195141221, 0195141229
1245907336
Critical thinking
The way words work
Language and definition
Disagreements, claims, and reasons
Common mistakes in thinking
More subtle errors of thought
Reasoning in a formal way
Patterns of deductive thinking
Inductive thinking : identifying causes, drawing analogies
Deriving generalizations, forming hypothesis
Discourse communities
Arguments in the disciplines
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