دانلود کتاب The art of reasoning

he Art offleasoning is a text on thinking skills. designed for courses
in informal logic and critical thinking. It covers a fairly traditional
range of topics: classification and definition, argument analysis, tal-
lacies, the syllogism, inductive generalization, argument by anal-
ogy, statistical reasoning, explanation. In selecting and presenting
the material. however, I have put morc emphasis than is customary
on assimilating the principles of logic in the form of skills. The
canons oi‘ reasoning are applied to a wide range of examples from
everytlay experience, political debate. and material discussed in
courses across the curriculum. And about a third of the book con-
sists ot exercises. Each section of a chapter is followed by a practice
quiz, with answers in the back otthe book so that students can test
their understanding of the material. Each chapter ends with a vari-
ety of exercises that have been designed to test reasoning skills in
many diltercnt combinations and on a wide range of tasks.