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Critical Thinking : A Concise Guide by Gary Kemp & Tracy Bowell is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Critical Thinking : A Concise Guide about?

Critical thinking: a concise guide is a much-needed guide to argument analysis and a clear introduction to thinking clearly and rationally for oneself. Through precise and accessible discussion this book equips students with the essential skills required to tell a good argument from a bad one. This third edition has been revised and updated throughout, with new exercises, and up-to-date topical examples, including: "real-world" arguments; practical reasoning; understanding quantitative data, statistics, and the rhetoric used about them; scientific reasoning; and expanded discussion of conditionals, ambiguity, vagueness, slippery slope arguments, and arguments by analogy. Read more... Abstract: A guide to argument analysis. It presents an introduction to thinking clearly and rationally for oneself. It tells how to avoid common confusions surrounding words such as 'truth', 'knowledge' and 'opinion'; how to identify and evaluate the most common types of argument; and, how to spot fallacies in arguments and tell good reasoning from bad. Read more...

Who reads Critical Thinking : A Concise Guide?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Gary Kemp & Tracy Bowell
Publisher
Taylor and Francis; Routledge
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9781135284121
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Philosophy, Anthropology, Humanities
Rating
3.87 / 5 (67 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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