Useful Study Guide For Logical Reasoning
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2013 4:03 pm
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I just found this link, and on the off chance that no one has already posted it, I thought I should share it with all of you. It would be best used as a supplementary guide to any of your standard study materials for the LR section (PS, Manhattan, etc...). There is a good amount of information, with numerous examples, about argument types/fallacies/structure, and it is also pretty specific regarding necessary and sufficient conditions. Hope it helps!
(Here is the table of contents):
Chapter 1: Basic Standardizing
1.1 Two Conventions for Standardizing
1.2 Five argument Types
Chapter 2: Basic Argument Evaluation
2.1 The definition of a good argument
2.2 Three Fallacies
Chapter 3: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
3.1 The meaning of necessary and sufficient conditions
3.2 Conditionals and necessary and sufficient conditions
3.3 The relationship between conditional and disguised conditionals
3.4 Contrapositive
Chapter 4: Validity
4.1 Valid and invalid arguments
Chapter 5: Intermediate Standardizing
5.1 Premise and conclusion indicators
5.2 Missing premises
Chapter 6: Fallacies of Relevance
6.1 Twelve fallacies of relevance
Chapter 7: Sufficiency
7.1 Sufficiency and deductive and inductive arguments
7.2 Fallacies of sufficiency
Chapter 8: Accepting Premises: Considerations of Logic and Language
8.1 Fallacies in accepting premises
8.2 Logical considerations in accepting premises
8.3 Considerations of language in accepting premises
Chapter 9: Accepting Premises: The Question of Evidence
9.1 Premises based on common knowledge of the target audience
9.2 Premises based on experience
9.3 Premises based on epistemic authority
Chapter 10: Advanced Standardizing
10.1 Identifying arguments
10.2 Individuating propositions
10.3 Counter considerations and counter arguments
I just found this link, and on the off chance that no one has already posted it, I thought I should share it with all of you. It would be best used as a supplementary guide to any of your standard study materials for the LR section (PS, Manhattan, etc...). There is a good amount of information, with numerous examples, about argument types/fallacies/structure, and it is also pretty specific regarding necessary and sufficient conditions. Hope it helps!
(Here is the table of contents):
Chapter 1: Basic Standardizing
1.1 Two Conventions for Standardizing
1.2 Five argument Types
Chapter 2: Basic Argument Evaluation
2.1 The definition of a good argument
2.2 Three Fallacies
Chapter 3: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
3.1 The meaning of necessary and sufficient conditions
3.2 Conditionals and necessary and sufficient conditions
3.3 The relationship between conditional and disguised conditionals
3.4 Contrapositive
Chapter 4: Validity
4.1 Valid and invalid arguments
Chapter 5: Intermediate Standardizing
5.1 Premise and conclusion indicators
5.2 Missing premises
Chapter 6: Fallacies of Relevance
6.1 Twelve fallacies of relevance
Chapter 7: Sufficiency
7.1 Sufficiency and deductive and inductive arguments
7.2 Fallacies of sufficiency
Chapter 8: Accepting Premises: Considerations of Logic and Language
8.1 Fallacies in accepting premises
8.2 Logical considerations in accepting premises
8.3 Considerations of language in accepting premises
Chapter 9: Accepting Premises: The Question of Evidence
9.1 Premises based on common knowledge of the target audience
9.2 Premises based on experience
9.3 Premises based on epistemic authority
Chapter 10: Advanced Standardizing
10.1 Identifying arguments
10.2 Individuating propositions
10.3 Counter considerations and counter arguments