Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric
The Use of Reason in Everyday Life
Howard Kahane(Author)
Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
7th Edition
Published on 14. November 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-534-25464-3 (ISBN)
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Description
This text introduces students to the topic of good reasoning in a way that is relevant to everyday life. It uses examples taken from the media (TV, newspapers, magazines), public school textbooks, advertisements, as well as from the best comic strips (such as Calvin and Hobbes, and Doonesbury), cartoons from "New Yorker" magazine and the best political cartoonists (for example, Levine and Tom Toles).
This text introduces students to the topic of good reasoning in a way that is relevant to everyday life. It uses examples taken from the media (TV, newspapers, magazines), public school textbooks, advertisements, as well as from the best comic strips (such as Calvin and Hobbes, and Doonesbury), cartoons from "New Yorker" magazine and the best political cartoonists (for example, Levine and Tom Toles).
This text introduces students to the topic of good reasoning in a way that is relevant to everyday life. It uses examples taken from the media (TV, newspapers, magazines), public school textbooks, advertisements, as well as from the best comic strips (such as Calvin and Hobbes, and Doonesbury), cartoons from "New Yorker" magazine and the best political cartoonists (for example, Levine and Tom Toles).
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Edition
7th 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, index
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 165 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-534-25464-3 (9780534254643)
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Book
08/1997
8th Edition
Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
€48.46
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Content
1. Introductory Overview. 2. Fallacious Reasoning - 1. 3. Fallacious Reasoning - 2. 4. Fallacious Reasoning - 3. 5. Impediments To Cogent Reasoning. 6. Language. 7. Evaluating And Constructing. 8. Advertising: Selling The Product. 9. Managing The News. 10. Textbooks: Managing World Views. Appendix: More On Cogent Reasoning. Answers to Starred Exercise Items.