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BL
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656061
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Bowell, Tracy,1965-
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| Title & Author
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Critical thinking : : a concise guide /\ Tracy Bowell and Gary Kemp
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| Edition Statement
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3rd ed
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2010
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x, 294 p. :: ill. ;; 26 cm
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| ISBN
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9780415471824 (hardback : alk. paper)
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: 0415471826 (hardback : alk. paper)
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: 9780415471831 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0415471834 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780203874134 (e-book)
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: 0203874137 (e-book)
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| Notes
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Includes glossary
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the third edition -- Introduction and preview -- Introducing arguments -- Linguistic phenomena and rhetorical ploys -- Logic: deductive validity -- Logic: inductive force -- The practice of argument-reconstruction -- Issues in argument assessment -- Pseudo-reasoning -- Truth knowledge and belief
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| Abstract
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Critical thinking: a concise guide is a much-needed guide to argument analysis and a clear introduction to thinking clearly and rationally for oneself. Through precise and accessible discussion this book equips students with the essential skills required to tell a good argument from a bad one. This third edition has been revised and updated throughout, with new exercises, and up-to-date topical examples, including: "real-world" arguments; practical reasoning; understanding quantitative data, statistics, and the rhetoric used about them; scientific reasoning; and expanded discussion of conditionals, ambiguity, vagueness, slippery slope arguments, and arguments by analogy
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Critical thinking
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Critical thinking-- Study and teaching
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Language and logic
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Reasoning
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| Dewey Classification
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160
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| LC Classification
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B809.2.B69 2010
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B809.2.B69 2010
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| Added Entry
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Kemp, Gary,1960 October 15-
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