Practical Reasoning In Natural Language (4th Edition)

About this book

Written especially for beginners this basic manual/workbook shows how to analyze and evaluate any passage of reasoning or argumentation as it actually occurs in natural language contexts e.g. books articles essays speeches editorials conversations. This book presents a general method of natural logic by which the logical structure of any argument Scientific philosophic mathematical political religious ethical legal inductive deductive modal semantic syntactic evidentiary etc. can be graphically represented without; employing traditional methods used in logic textbooks (e.g. truth-tables Venn diagrams etc.). It shows how these techniques can be used to analyze a situation involving many pros and cons and to identify the argument in discourse where the reasoning is obscure complex or disorganized.