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<p><em>Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide</em> 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.</p> <p>Key features of the book are:</p> <ul> <li>clear, jargon-free discussion of key concepts in argumentation</li> <li>how to avoid common confusions surrounding words such as ‘truth’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘opinion’</li> <li>how to identify and evaluate the most common types of argument</li> <li>how to spot fallacies in arguments and tell good reasoning from bad</li> <li>chapter summaries, glossaries and useful exercises.</li> </ul> <p>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.</p> <p>The Routledge <em>Critical Thinking</em> companion website, fea

Who reads Critical Thinking : A Concise Guide?

Author

Tracy Bowell and Gary Kemp

Publisher

London ; New York: Routledge

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781135284145

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities

Rating

3.87 / 5 (67 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14