Logic and contemporary rhetoric : the use of reason in everyday life / Howard Kahane.

By: Kahane, Howard, 1928-
Publisher: Belmont, Calif. : Wadsworth Pub. Co., [1984]Copyright date: �1984Edition: Fourth editionDescription: xiii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0534031889; 9780534031886Subject(s): Fallacies (Logic) | Reasoning | Judgment (Logic)DDC classification: 160 LOC classification: BC175 | .K25 1984
Contents:
Good and Bad Reasoning -- Reasoning and Arguments -- Exposition and Argument -- Cogent Reasoning -- Two Basic Kinds of Valid Arguments -- Some Wrong Ideas about Cogent Reasoning -- Background Beliefs -- Kinds of Background Beliefs -- Worldviews or Philosophies -- Insufficiently Grounded Beliefs -- Two Vital Kinds of Background Beliefs -- Science to the Rescue -- More on Deduction and Induction -- Deductive Validity -- Deductive Invalidity -- Syllogisms -- Indirect Proofs -- Tautologies, Contradictions, and Contingent Statements -- Inductive Validity (Correctness) and Invalidity (Incorrectness) -- A Misconception about Deduction and Induction -- Reasoning Cogently versus Being Right in Fact -- Fallacious Reasoning--1 -- Appeal to Authority -- Inconsistency -- Straw Man -- False Dilemma and the Either-Or Fallacy -- Begging the Question -- Questionable Premise--Questionable Statement -- Suppressed (Overlooked) Evidence -- Tokenism -- Fallacious Reasoning--2 -- Ad Hominem Argument -- Two Wrongs Make a Right -- Irrelevant Reason (Non Sequitur) -- Equivocation -- Appeal to Ignorance -- Composition and Division -- Slippery Slope -- Fallacious Reasoning--3 -- Hasty Conclusion -- Small Sample -- Unrepresentative Sample -- Questionable Cause -- Questionable Analogy -- Questionable Statistics -- Questionable Uses of Good Statistics -- Polls: An Important Special Case -- False Charge of Fallacy -- Psychological Impediments to Cogent Reasoning: Shooting Ourselves in the Foot -- Loyalty, Provincialism, and the Herd Instinct.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-313) and index.

Good and Bad Reasoning -- Reasoning and Arguments -- Exposition and Argument -- Cogent Reasoning -- Two Basic Kinds of Valid Arguments -- Some Wrong Ideas about Cogent Reasoning -- Background Beliefs -- Kinds of Background Beliefs -- Worldviews or Philosophies -- Insufficiently Grounded Beliefs -- Two Vital Kinds of Background Beliefs -- Science to the Rescue -- More on Deduction and Induction -- Deductive Validity -- Deductive Invalidity -- Syllogisms -- Indirect Proofs -- Tautologies, Contradictions, and Contingent Statements -- Inductive Validity (Correctness) and Invalidity (Incorrectness) -- A Misconception about Deduction and Induction -- Reasoning Cogently versus Being Right in Fact -- Fallacious Reasoning--1 -- Appeal to Authority -- Inconsistency -- Straw Man -- False Dilemma and the Either-Or Fallacy -- Begging the Question -- Questionable Premise--Questionable Statement -- Suppressed (Overlooked) Evidence -- Tokenism -- Fallacious Reasoning--2 -- Ad Hominem Argument -- Two Wrongs Make a Right -- Irrelevant Reason (Non Sequitur) -- Equivocation -- Appeal to Ignorance -- Composition and Division -- Slippery Slope -- Fallacious Reasoning--3 -- Hasty Conclusion -- Small Sample -- Unrepresentative Sample -- Questionable Cause -- Questionable Analogy -- Questionable Statistics -- Questionable Uses of Good Statistics -- Polls: An Important Special Case -- False Charge of Fallacy -- Psychological Impediments to Cogent Reasoning: Shooting Ourselves in the Foot -- Loyalty, Provincialism, and the Herd Instinct.

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