a guide to good thinking McInerny, Dennis Q. creator text biography nyu New York Random House 2004 monographic eng

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xvi, 137 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Preparing the mind for logic -- The basic principles of logic -- Argument : the language of logic -- The sources of illogical thinking -- The principal forms of illogical thinking. Part One: Preparing the mind for logic -- Be attentive -- Get the facts straight -- Ideas and the objects of ideas -- Be mindful of the origins of ideas -- Match ideas to facts -- Match words to ideas -- Effective communication -- Avoid vague and ambiguous language -- Avoid evasive language -- Truth -- Part Two: The basic principles of logic -- First principles -- Real gray areas, manufactured gray areas -- There's an explanation for everything, eventually -- Don't stop short in the search for causes -- Distinguish among causes -- Define your terms -- The categorical statement -- Generalizing -- Part Three: Argument: the language of logic -- Founding an argument -- The move from universal to particular -- The move from particular to universal -- Predication -- Negative statements -- Making comparisons -- Comparison and argument -- Sound argument -- Conditional argument -- Syllogistic argument -- The truth of premises -- The relevancy of premises -- Statements of fact, statements of value -- Argumentative form -- Conclusions must reflect quanitity of premises -- Conclusions must reflect quality of premises -- Inductive argument -- Assessing argument -- Constructing an argument -- Part Four: The sources of illogical thinking -- Skepticism -- Evasive agnosticism -- Cynicism and naive optimism -- Narrow-mindedness -- Emotion and argument -- The reason for reasoning -- Argumentation is not quarreling -- The limits of sincerity -- Common sense -- Part Five: The principal forms of illogical thinking -- Denying the antecedent -- Affirming the consequent -- The undistributed middle term -- Equivocation -- Begging the question -- False assumptions -- The straw-man fallacy -- Using and abusing tradition -- Two wrongs don't make a right -- The democratic fallacy -- Substituting for the force of reason -- The uses and abuses of expertise -- The quantifying of quality -- Consider more than the source -- Stopping short at analysis -- Reductionism -- Misclassification -- The red herring -- Laughter as diversionary tactic -- Tears as diversionary tactic -- An inability to disprove does not prove -- The false dilemma -- Post hoc ergo propter hoc -- Special pleading -- The fallacy of expediency -- Avoiding conclusions -- Simplistic reasoning -- Afterword. D.Q. McInerny. Includes index. Logic Reasoning Thought and thinking Primera Jornada de Catalogación Logica Pensamiento crítico Razonamiento BC 71 M478b 2004 160 1400061717 9781400061716 9780812971156 0812971159 2003058779 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random055/2003058779.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random051/2003058779.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random052/2003058779.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random055/2003058779.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random051/2003058779.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random052/2003058779.html DLC 030911 20230410133007.0 116992