Rational episodes : logic for the intermittently reasonable / Keith M. Parsons.

Author: Parsons, Keith M., 1952-

Imprint:Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2010.

Description292 p. ; 23 cm.

Note:Preface for instructors -- Preface for students (you really should read it) -- What is logic? -- Sentential logic basics -- Sentential logic proofs -- More sentential logic : contradictions, tautologies, and assumptions -- Predicate logic basics -- Proofs in predicate logic -- Probability : the basic rules of life -- The theorem of Dr. Bayes -- Probability illusions : why we are so bad at inductive reasoning -- "Studies have shown"-- or have they? -- Inference to the best explanation -- Rhetoric : the art of persuasion -- Won't get fooled again (fallacies and other foibles) -- Spin, spin, spin (or how not to be a sucker) -- Everything you know is wrong! Pseudoscience and bogus scholarship.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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