Good Reasoning Matters

INTRODUCTION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1. Getting Started: Looking for an Argument; 2. Argument Diagrams; Pointing the Way; 3, Implicit Argument Components: Filling in the Blanks; 4. Definitions: Saying What you Mean; 5. Bias: Reading Between the Lines; 6. Strong and Weak Arguments: Preparing for Evaluations; 7. Syllogisms I: Classifying Arguments; 8. Syllogisms II: Testing Classes; 9. Propositional Logic I: Some Ifs, Ands and Buts; 10. Propositional Logic II: Conditionals, Dilemas, and Reductios; 11. Ordinary Reasoning: Assessing the Basics; 12, Empirical Schemes of Argument: Nothing but the Facts; 13. Moral and Political Reasoning: Schemes of Value; 14. Ethotic Schemes: Judging Character