Author: Fearnside, W. Ward
Edition #2; Paperback; Index
416 pages
Published: September 1996
Pearson Higher Education
ISBN: 0135351898

Concerned with practical problems and matters basic to critical thinking, this volume provides many examples and doable exercises that stress the application of logic to situations expressed in ordinary language. It offers rules for improving the quality of thinking--explaining basic concepts such as induction and deduction in clear and simple terms--and briefly touches upon topics like evidence, statistics and language.Concerned with problems and matters basic to critical thinking, this volume provides examples and exercises that stress the application of logic to situations expressed in ordinary language. It offers rules for improving the quality of thinking and touches upon topics like evidence and statistics.