This is a summary of the book 'Critical thinking: A concise guide' by Bowell and Kemp. The topics in this summary are about constructing arguments and recognizing good from bad arguments. In this summary, everything second year psychology students at the uva need in the first block of WSRt is present.
Critical thinking
Chapter 1
Introducing Arguments
To attempt to persuade by giving good reasons is to give an argument.
Critical thinking
Chapter 2
Language and rhetoric
Once we’ve determined that a text
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Chapter 3
Logic: deductive validity
Argument reconstruction: the representation of arguments in standard form, so as to give us a clear and comprehensive view of them.
Argument assessment: the determination of whether or not arguments provide good reasons for accepting their conclusions.
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Chapter 7
Pseudo-reasoning
Fallacies count as arguments in the sense that they fit our definition of an argument. They consist of a
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