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PROBLEM SOLVING, Bruce N. Waller - Critical thinking (Introduction, A few…
PROBLEM SOLVING
Bruce N. Waller - Critical thinking
Introduction
A few important terms
Ad Hominem arguments
The second deadly fallacy: the strawman fallacy
What's the question?
Relevant and irrelevant reasons
Analyzing arguments
The burden of proof
Language and its pitfalls
Appeal to authority
Arguments by analogy
Some distinctive arguments and potential pitfalls: slippery slope, dilemma, and golden mean arguments
Begging the question
Necessary and sufficient conditions
Scientific and casual reasoning
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
Thinking critically about statistics
Symbolic sentential logic
Arguments about classes