Informal logic : a pragmatic approach /

Informal logic : a pragmatic approach /

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Author / Creator:Walton, Douglas N.
Edition:2nd ed.
Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 347 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:
Logic.
Reasoning.
Logic.
Reasoning.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11814490
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ISBN:0521886171
9780521886178
0521713803
9780521713801
0511409354
9780511409356
9780511409899
0511409893
9780511407994
0511407998
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9786611717063
6611717064
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:"Informal Logic is an introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticizing bad ones. Non-technical in approach, it is based on 186 examples, which Douglas Walton, a leading authority in the field of informal logic, discusses and evaluates in clear, illustrative detail. Walton explains how errors, fallacies, and other key failures of argument occur. He shows how correct uses of argument are based on sound strategies for reasoned persuasion and critical responses. Among the many subjects covered are: forms of valid argument, defeasible arguments, relevance, appeals to emotion, personal attack, straw man argument, jumping to a conclusion, uses and abuses of expert opinion, problems in drawing conclusions from polls and statistics, loaded terms, equivocation, arguments from analogy, and techniques of posing, replying to, and criticizing questions."--Jacket
Other form:Print version: Walton, Douglas N. Informal logic. 2nd ed. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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