How to think straight : an introduction to critical reasoning / Antony Flew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flew, Antony, 1923-2010, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thought and thinking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, [1998]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Practical reasoning and clear thinking are essential for everyone if we are to make sense of the information we receive each day.Being able to quickly know the difference between valid and invalid arguments, the contradictory versus the contrary, vagueness and ambiguity, contradiction and self-contradiction, the truthful and the fallacious.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Epigram

Contents

Foreword

1. The Basic Equipment

2. If/Then and All/None

3. Evasion and Falsification

4. Motives and Grounds

5. Minding Our Language

6. Figuring

7. A Chapter of Errors

8. The Final Foreword

Selected Bibliography

Index of Personal Names

Index of Ideas

Back Cover.

Notes:

"Originally published in the United Kingdom as Thinking about thinking and later reissued in the United States of America as Thinking straight"--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-151) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-61592-215-6

OCLC:

1108567214