Govier, Trudy.

A practical study of argument / Trudy Govier. - Enhanced 7th ed. - Australia : Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2014. - xiii, 417 p. ; 23 cm.

'This textbook includes access to a specialized InfoTrac collection of journal articles and reference materials uniquely matched to accompany this book'--p. 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. What is an argument? (and what is not?) -- 2. Pinning down argument structure -- 3. Looking at language -- 4. Good arguments: an introduction -- 5. Premises: what to accept and why -- 6. Working on relevance -- 7. Deductive arguments: categorical logic -- 8. Deductive arguments: propositional logic -- 9. An introduction to inductive arguments -- 10. Causal inductive arguments -- 11. Analogies: reasoning from case to case -- 12. Conductive arguments and counterconsiderations.

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Reasoning.
Logic.