Logical Reasoning
by Bradley Dowden
Publisher: California State University Sacramento 2020
Number of pages: 599
Description:
College level critical thinking textbook with solved exercises. Topics: Identifying claims, issues, arguments, and explanations. Ambiguity and vagueness. Information and fake news. Writing to convince others. Detecting fallacies. Inconsistency. Deductive and inductive reasoning. Venn diagrams.
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