{"product_id":"critical-thinking-9780415820929","title":"Critical Thinking","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe are frequently confronted with arguments. Arguments are attempts to persuade us  to influence our beliefs and actions  by giving us reasons to believe this or that. Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide will equip students with the concepts and techniques used in the identification  analysis and assessment of arguments. Through precise and accessible discussion  this book provides the tools to become a successful critical thinker  one who can act and believe in accordance with good reasons  and who can articulate and make explicit those reasons.  Key topics discussed include:  core concepts in argumentation how language can serve to obscure or conceal the real content of arguments; how to distinguish argumentation from rhetoric how to avoid common confusions surrounding words such as truth  knowledge and opinion how to identify and evaluate the most common types of argument how to distinguish good reasoning from bad in terms of deductive validly and induction.  This fourth edition has been revised and updated throughout  with a new introduction for each chapter and up-to-date topical examples. Particular revisions include: practical reasoning; understanding quantitative data  statistics  and the rhetoric used about them; scientific reasoning; the connection to formal logic and the logic of probability; conditionals; ambiguity; vagueness; slippery slope arguments; and arguments by analogy.  The dynamic Routledge Critical Thinking companion website provides thoroughly updated resources for both instructors and students including new examples and case studies  flashcards  sample questions  practice questions and answers  student activities and a testbank of questions for use in the classroom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647086190645,"sku":"ByrdShop_0415820928","price":102.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780415820929.jpg?v=1781688411","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/critical-thinking-9780415820929","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}