Table of Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii About the authors xix Chapter 1 Critical Thinking Basics 1 What Is Critical Thinking? 2 The Basics: Claims, Issues, and Arguments 5 lms Issues 6 Arguments 10 What Arguments Are Not 11 Further Confusions 12 Arguments and Explanations 12 Arguments and Persuasion 13 Two Kinds of Good Arguments 14 Deductive Arguments 14 Inductive Arguments 14 ecognizing Arguments 15 The Two Parts of an Argument 15 The Language of Arguments 15 Other Terms and Concepts 16 Truth 16 Knowledge 1 Value judgments 17 Extraneous Considerations: Logical Window Dressing 19 A Word About the exercises 21 Recap 21 Exercises 22 Chapter 2 Two Kinds of Reasoning 41 Arguments: General Features 41 Conclusions used as premises 42 Unstated Premises and Conclusions 43Confirming Pages iii Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii About the Authors xix Chapter 1 Critical Thinking Basics 1 What Is Critical Thinking? 2 The Basics: Claims, Issues, and Arguments 5 Claims 6 Issues 6 Arguments 10 What Arguments Are Not 11 Further Confusions 12 Arguments and Explanations 12 Arguments and Persuasion 13 Two Kinds of Good Arguments 14 Deductive Arguments 14 Inductive Arguments 14 Recognizing Arguments 15 The Two Parts of an Argument 15 The Language of Arguments 15 Other Terms and Concepts 16 Truth 16 Knowledge 17 Value Judgments 17 Extraneous Considerations: Logical Window Dressing 19 A Word About the Exercises 21 Recap 21 Exercises 22 Chapter 2 Two Kinds of Reasoning 41 Arguments: General Features 41 Conclusions Used as Premises 42 Unstated Premises and Conclusions 43 Table of Contents moo86677_fm_i-xxii.indd iii 7/2/08 6:11:45 PM