Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict
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This introduction to critical thinking teaches individuals how to integrate all their logic skills into the critical decision-making process they undertake in their own lives as citizens and consumers.Organized around lively and authentic examples drawn from jury trials, contemporary political and social debate, and advertising, the book discusses not only how to detect fallacies, but also how to examine, appreciate, and construct cogent arguments.For a lifetime of thinking critically and creating arguments about any and all of life's controversies.
Preface1Introduction12A Few Important Terms103What's the Question?224Relevant and Irrelevant Reasons305The Burden of Proof466Analyzing Arguments597Necessary and Sufficient Conditions828Symbolic Sentential Logic1109Arguments about Classes14610Ad Hominem Arguments17611Appeal to Authority20512The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth21913Strawman, Slippery Slope, Dilemma, and Golden Mean Arguments: Their Use and Abuse24514Begging the Question27415Arguments by Analogy28916Questions of Cause328Cumulative Exercises One (Chapters 1 through 11)343Cumulative Exercises Two (Chapters 1 through 14)348Cumulative Exercises Three (Chapters 1 through 16)360Consider Your Verdict: Comprehensive Critical Thinking in the Jury Room376Answers to Selected Exercises404Index429
