Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric
The Use of Reason in Everyday Life
6th Edition
Published on 1. January 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-534-16896-4 (ISBN)
Description
Aims to challenge students to think for themselves by providing coverage of some common fallacies used in advertising, the mass media, textbooks, by public officials and in everyday conversation. This book should be of interest to students of critical thinking and informal logic courses.
Aims to challenge students to think for themselves by providing coverage of some common fallacies used in advertising, the mass media, textbooks, by public officials and in everyday conversation. This book should be of interest to students of critical thinking and informal logic courses.
Aims to challenge students to think for themselves by providing coverage of some common fallacies used in advertising, the mass media, textbooks, by public officials and in everyday conversation. This book should be of interest to students of critical thinking and informal logic courses.
More details
Edition
6th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Belmont, CA
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
bibliography, indices
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
520 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-534-16896-4 (9780534168964)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Fallacious reasoning. Impediments to cogent reasoning. Language. Evaluation and constructing extended arguments. Advertising, selling the product. Managing the news. Textbooks managing world views. Appendix: Answers to starred exercise items.