Informal logic
a pragmatic approach
by Douglas N. Walton
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"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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Reasoning, Logic, Argumentation, Logisches Denken, Logik, ArgumentationsteknikShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Informal logic: a pragmatic approach
2008, Cambridge University Press
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Informal logic: a handbook for critical argumentation
1989, Cambridge University Press
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