381 pages : 28 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-279) and index

1. Analysis of reasoning. Short, simple reasoning -- Longer, more complex discourses. 2. Evaluation of reasoning. Basic concepts of evaluation -- Degrees of support reasons give to conclusions -- Critical life decisions: complete evaluation of reasoning -- Syllogistic logic -- Reasoning with statements -- Moderate to fallacious arguments. 3. Evaluating unsupported beliefs. Justification, paradigms, and reasoning -- Seeing, reasoning and scientific justification -- Justification in law -- Philosophical dialectic and high justification -- Religion and science -- Pseudoscience as unjustified statements -- The US and the global corporate economy. Appendices: summary of logical evaluation concepts; checklist for statement evaluation

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