A Rulebook for Arguments

• Author : Anthony Weston
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1992-01-01
• ISBN : 0872201562

• Author : Anthony Weston
• Publisher : Hackett Publishing Company
• Release Date : 2018-02
• ISBN : 162466654X

From academic writing to personal and public discourse, the need for good arguments and better ways of arguing is greater than ever before. This timely fifth edition of A Rulebook for Arguments sharpens an already-classic text, adding updated examples and a new chapter on public debates that provides rules for the etiquette and ethics of sound public dialogue as well as clear and sound thinking in general.

• Author : David R. Morrow,Anthony Weston
• Publisher : Hackett Publishing
• Release Date : 2019-11-18
• ISBN : 9781624668791

David Morrow and Anthony Weston build on Weston's acclaimed A Rulebook for Arguments to offer a complete textbook for a course in critical thinking or informal logic. Features of the book include: Homework exercises adapted from a wide range of actual arguments from newspapers, philosophical texts, literature, movies, YouTube videos, and other sources. Practical advice to help students succeed when applying the Rulebook's rules. Suggestions for further practice that outline activities students can do by themselves or with classmates to

• Author : D.Q. McInerny
• Publisher : Random House
• Release Date : 2004-08-03
• ISBN : 9781588363770

An essential tool for our post-truth world: a witty primer on logic—and the dangers of illogical thinking—by a renowned Notre Dame professor Logic is synonymous with reason, judgment, sense, wisdom, and sanity. Being logical is the ability to create concise and reasoned arguments—arguments that build from given premises, using evidence, to a genuine conclusion. But mastering logical thinking also requires studying and understanding illogical thinking, both to sharpen one’s own skills and to protect against incoherent,

• Author : Bo Bennett
• Publisher : eBookIt.com
• Release Date : 2012-02-19
• ISBN : 9781456607371

This book is a crash course in effective reasoning, meant to catapult you into a world where you start to see things how they really are, not how you think they are. The focus of this book is on logical fallacies, which loosely defined, are simply errors in reasoning. With the reading of each page, you can make significant improvements in the way you reason and make decisions. Logically Fallacious is one of the most comprehensive collections of logical fallacies

• Author : Robert J. Fogelin,Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
• Publisher : Harcourt College Pub
• Release Date : 1991
• ISBN : 0155926721

• Author : Gerry Spence
• Publisher : Macmillan
• Release Date : 1996-04-15
• ISBN : 0312144776

A noted attorney gives detailed instructions on winning arguments, emphasizing such points as learning to speak with the body, avoiding being blinding by brilliance, and recognizing the power of words as a weapon. Reprint.

• Author : Madsen Pirie
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release Date : 2015-03-12
• ISBN : 9781472526977

In the second edition of this witty and infectious book, Madsen Pirie builds upon his guide to using - and indeed abusing - logic in order to win arguments. By including new chapters on how to win arguments in writing, in the pub, with a friend, on Facebook and in 140 characters (on Twitter), Pirie provides the complete guide to triumphing in altercations ranging from the everyday to the downright serious. He identifies with devastating examples all the most common fallacies