Barry, Vincent E.

Invitation to critical thinking / Vincent E. Barry. Joel Rudinow, - 5th ed. - Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Thomson, c2004. - xv, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Basics -- Argument -- Deductive Reasoning -- Inductive Reasoning -- Evaluating Whole Arguments.

"Focusing on the recognition, analysis, evaluation and composition of arguments as discursive tools of rational persuasion, this text introduces students to a wide variety of strategies for identifying and analysing arguments in the world about them." --OCLC WorldCat

0155058835


Critical thinking.
Logic.

BC177.B35 2004