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Govier's THE PRACTICAL STUDY OF ARGUMENT provides students with a practical, unpatronizing, and academically serious introduction to sound argumentation. Presenting enough theory to explain why certain kinds of arguments are good or bad and enough illustrations and examples to show how such theory is brought to life in everyday practice, the text provides the student with a comprehensive introduction to critical thinking and some of the basics of formal logic.
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Govier, a Canadian philosopher and lecturer, explains the uses of good arguments, and provides the theoretical base for determining which arguments are good, and which are bad. She describes inductively strong and deductively valid arguments, as well as analogies and fallacies, supported with numerous examples and exercises. The sixth edition expands the discussion of internet sources, explores the significance of the failure to find WMDs in Iraq, and provides five new essays for analysis in the appendix. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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