“Contents” in “Critical Thinking, Logic, and Argument”
Contents
Preface: Am I a Critical Thinker?
The Role of Evaluating Arguments
1. Critical Thinking and Belief
1.1 Are We Responsible for Beliefs?
1.2 The Causal Character of Belief
1.3 The Functional Model of Belief
2.1 Context for Critical Thinking
2.3 Relevance and Dialectic Acceptability
3.2 Deductive Versus Inductive Arguments
3.3 Inductive Strength and Probability
3.5 Five Valid Deductive Argument Patterns
3.6 Two Invalid Deductive Argument Patterns
4. Putting Validity into Practice
5.1 Building a Classification System
6.1 Definition and Language Use
6.2 Classification and Language Use
6.4 Rules for a Good Definition
7. Arguments from Definition and Enthymemes
7.1 Reasoning with Definitions
7.2 Validity and Definitional Arguments
8.1 Transitivity in a Syllogism
9. Categorical Logic Statements
9.1 Four Kinds of Categorical Statements
9.2 Four Parts of Every Categorical Statement
10. Translating Categorical Statements
10.1 Three Issues for Translation of Statements
10.2 Interpretations of “Some”
10.3 Direct Singular Reference
10.5 Translating an Informal Statement
11.1 Theory of Immediate Inference
11.9 Traditional Square of Opposition
12.6 Rules for Using Venn Diagrams to Determine Validity
13. Introduction to Fallacies and Bias
13.1 Introduction to Fallacies
13.4 List of Fallacies Covered
14.1 Introduction to Fallacies of Ambiguity
14.7 Fallacy of Hypostatization
15. Fallacies of Emotional Bias
15.1 Fallacy of Personal Attack (Ad Hominem)
15.5 Mob Appeal (Argumentum Ad Populum)
15.6 Appeal to Pity (Argumentum Ad Misericordiam)
15.7 Appeal to Force or Fear (Argumentum Ad Baculum)
16.1 Genuine Appeal to Authority
16.2 Fallacious Appeal to Authority
16.6 Appeal to Anonymous Authority
17. Fallacies of Distorting the Facts
17.4 Slippery Slope (Wedge) Argument
17.5 Irrelevant Thesis (Ignoratio Elenchi)
18.1 Sweeping Generalization (Fallacy of Accident)
18.2 Hasty Generalization (Converse Accident)
18.3 Difference Between Hasty and Sweeping Generalization
18.4 Difference Between Hasty and Sweeping Generalization and Composition and Division
18.5 The Fallacy of Bifurcation
19. Fallacies of Evading the Facts
19.2 The Fallacy of Begging the Question (Petitio Principii)
19.3 The Fallacy of Question-Begging Epithets
19.4 The Fallacy of Complex Question
19.5 The Fallacy of Special Pleading
20. Putting Critical Thinking into Practice
20.1 Returning to Inductive Strength
20.3 Evaluating Arguments in Longer Text
21.2 Fallacies of Emotional Bias
21.4 Fallacies of Distorting the Facts
21.6 Fallacies of Evading the Facts
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