Critical thinking: A concise guide van Bowell - English summary

Linguistic phenomena

The interpretation of speech or text is often hampered by all sorts of linguistic phenomena in everyday

As mentioned in earlier chapters, care must be taken when generalizing claims and combating them. For example, if a doctor says

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Rational persuasion

In the previous chapters we have seen that an argument is correct if the premises are true and the argument is deductively valid or inductively powerful. However, this does not always apply; often we cannot say for certain whether the premises are true. View the following example:

Truth and