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Informal logic : a pragmatic approach /
"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, illu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 347 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521886171 9780521886178 0521713803 9780521713801 0511409354 9780511409356 9780511409899 0511409893 9780511407994 0511407998 9780511808630 0511808631 9786611717063 6611717064 1107086574 9781107086579 1107186692 9781107186699 1281717061 9781281717061 0511407254 9780511407253 0511408781 9780511408786 |