TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kahane,Howard
TI  - Logic and contemporary rhetoric: the use of reason in everyday life 
SN  - 0534031889
AV  - BC175 .K25 1984
U1  - 160 19
PY  - 1984///]
CY  - Belmont, Calif.
PB  - Wadsworth Pub. Co.
KW  - Fallacies (Logic)
KW  - Reasoning
KW  - Judgment (Logic)
N1  - 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
ER  -