Transcription of Critical Thinking - Bellevue College
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1 Critical Thinking Mark Storey Bellevue College Copyright (c) 2013 Mark Storey Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is found at 2 Contents Part 1 Chapter 1: Thinking Critically about the Logic of Arguments .. 3 Chapter 2: Deduction and Induction .. 10 Chapter 3: Evaluating Deductive Arguments .. 16 Chapter 4: Evaluating Inductive Arguments .. 24 Chapter 5: Deductive Soundness and Inductive Cogency .. 29 Chapter 6: The Counterexample Method .. 33 Part 2 Chapter 7: Fallacies .. 43 Chapter 8: Arguments from Analogy .. 75 Part 3 Chapter 9: Categorical 86 Chapter 10: Propositional 116 Part 4 Chapter 11: Causal 143 Chapter 12: 159 Chapter 13: Definitions and 179 Chapter 14: Chapter 1: Thinking Critically about the Logic of Arguments Logic and Critical Thinking together make up the systematic study of reasoning, and reasoning is what we do when we draw a conclusion on the basis of other claims.
making a chain of arguments. Still, to be precise, each argument or specific line of inference contains one and only one conclusion, although each may contain varying number of premises. For instance: 1. All dogs are mammals. 2. All mammals are animals. 3. Thus, all dogs are animals. 4. Scooby-Doo is a dog. 5. Thus, Scooby-Doo is an animal. 6.
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