The fundamentals of argument analysis: essays on logic as the art of reasoning well
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| 505 | 8 | |a This series of books presents the fundamentals of logic in a style accessible to both students and scholars. The text of each essay presents a story, the main line of development of the ideas, while the notes and appendices place the research within a larger scholarly context. The essays overlap, forming a unified analysis of logic as the art of reasoning well, yet each essay is designed so that it may be read independently. The question addressed in this volume is how we can justify our beliefs through reasoning. The first essay, "Arguments," investigates what it is that we call true or false and how we reason toward truths through arguments. A general theory of argument analysis is set out on the basis of what we can assume about those with whom we reason. The next essay, "Fallacies," explains how the classification of an argument as a fallacy can be used within that general approach. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a In contrast, there is no agreement on what the terms "induction" and "deduction" mean, and they are not useful in evaluating arguments, as shown in "Induction and Deduction." In reasoning to truths, in the end we must take some claims as basic, not requiring any justification for accepting them. How we choose those claims and how they affect our reasoning is examined in "Base Claims." The essay "Analogies" considers how comparisons can be used as the basis of arguments, arguing from similar situations to similar conclusions. An important use of analogies is in reasoning about the mental life of other people and things, which is examined in "Subjective Claims," written with Fred Kroon and William S. Robinson. "Generalizing" examines how to argue from part of a collection or mass to the whole or a larger part. The question there is whether we are ever justified in accepting such an argument as good. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a "Probabilities" sets out the three main ways probability statements have been interpreted: the logical relation view, the frequency view, and the subjective degree of belief view. Each of those is shown to be inadequate to make precise the scale of plausibility of claims and the scale of the likelihood of a possibility. Many discussions of how to reason well and what counts as good reason are given in terms of who or what is rational. In the final essay, "Rationality," it's shown that what we mean by the idea of someone being rational is of very little use in evaluating reasoning or actions. This volume is meant to give a clearer idea of how to reason well, setting out methods of evaluation that are motivated in terms of our abilities and interests. At the ground of our reasoning, though, are metaphysical assumptions, too basic and too much needed in our reasoning for us to justify them through reasoning. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a But we can try to uncover those assumptions to see how they are important and what depends on them, which is a major them of this volume | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Preface; Arguments; Claims; Inferences; Arguments; Plausible claims; Contrary claims and suspending judgment; Begging the question; Valid inferences; Strong arguments; Evaluating the likelihood of a possibility; Taking account of what we (think we) know; Converting strong arguments into valid ones?; Certainty; Can a strong argument be good?; Good arguments; Repairing arguments; Examples of argument analysis; Does every good argument require a general principle as premise?; Conclusion; Appendix: The asymmetry of showing validity vs. showing invalidity; Notes; Fallacies | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The classical view of fallaciesCurrent views of fallacies; A definition of "fallacy"; Examples; Conclusion; Notes; Induction and Deduction; The arguer's intention; Deduction as validity; Induction as generalization; Deduction and formal logic; Conclusion; Notes; Base Claims; Analogies; What is an analogy?; Analogies and the common law; Analogies and generalizations; Conclusion; Notes; Subjective Claims; Some current definitions of "subjective"; A definition of "subjective claim"; Examples of classifying claims; Intersubjective claims; Personal standards; Judgment | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Converting subjective claims into objective ones?Reasoning; Reasoning to objective claims from subjective premises; Reasoning to subjective claims; The argument from analogy for other people feeling pain; Conclusion; Notes; Generalizing; What is a generalization?; Evaluating a generalization; Examples; Can a generalization be a good argument?; Appendix: Hempel's paradox of confirmation; Notes; Probabilities; Three ways to understand "probably"; The logical relation view of probability; The frequency view of probability; The subjective degree of belief view of probability | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Can probability theory provide a foundation for inference analysis?Conclusion; Notes; Rationality; Beliefs; Conscious rationality for reasoning; Conscious rationality for behavior; Dispositional rationality; Conclusion; Appendix: Irrational emotions; Notes; Bibliography; Index | |
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| contents | This series of books presents the fundamentals of logic in a style accessible to both students and scholars. The text of each essay presents a story, the main line of development of the ideas, while the notes and appendices place the research within a larger scholarly context. The essays overlap, forming a unified analysis of logic as the art of reasoning well, yet each essay is designed so that it may be read independently. The question addressed in this volume is how we can justify our beliefs through reasoning. The first essay, "Arguments," investigates what it is that we call true or false and how we reason toward truths through arguments. A general theory of argument analysis is set out on the basis of what we can assume about those with whom we reason. The next essay, "Fallacies," explains how the classification of an argument as a fallacy can be used within that general approach. In contrast, there is no agreement on what the terms "induction" and "deduction" mean, and they are not useful in evaluating arguments, as shown in "Induction and Deduction." In reasoning to truths, in the end we must take some claims as basic, not requiring any justification for accepting them. How we choose those claims and how they affect our reasoning is examined in "Base Claims." The essay "Analogies" considers how comparisons can be used as the basis of arguments, arguing from similar situations to similar conclusions. An important use of analogies is in reasoning about the mental life of other people and things, which is examined in "Subjective Claims," written with Fred Kroon and William S. Robinson. "Generalizing" examines how to argue from part of a collection or mass to the whole or a larger part. The question there is whether we are ever justified in accepting such an argument as good. "Probabilities" sets out the three main ways probability statements have been interpreted: the logical relation view, the frequency view, and the subjective degree of belief view. Each of those is shown to be inadequate to make precise the scale of plausibility of claims and the scale of the likelihood of a possibility. Many discussions of how to reason well and what counts as good reason are given in terms of who or what is rational. In the final essay, "Rationality," it's shown that what we mean by the idea of someone being rational is of very little use in evaluating reasoning or actions. This volume is meant to give a clearer idea of how to reason well, setting out methods of evaluation that are motivated in terms of our abilities and interests. At the ground of our reasoning, though, are metaphysical assumptions, too basic and too much needed in our reasoning for us to justify them through reasoning. But we can try to uncover those assumptions to see how they are important and what depends on them, which is a major them of this volume Preface; Arguments; Claims; Inferences; Arguments; Plausible claims; Contrary claims and suspending judgment; Begging the question; Valid inferences; Strong arguments; Evaluating the likelihood of a possibility; Taking account of what we (think we) know; Converting strong arguments into valid ones?; Certainty; Can a strong argument be good?; Good arguments; Repairing arguments; Examples of argument analysis; Does every good argument require a general principle as premise?; Conclusion; Appendix: The asymmetry of showing validity vs. showing invalidity; Notes; Fallacies The classical view of fallaciesCurrent views of fallacies; A definition of "fallacy"; Examples; Conclusion; Notes; Induction and Deduction; The arguer's intention; Deduction as validity; Induction as generalization; Deduction and formal logic; Conclusion; Notes; Base Claims; Analogies; What is an analogy?; Analogies and the common law; Analogies and generalizations; Conclusion; Notes; Subjective Claims; Some current definitions of "subjective"; A definition of "subjective claim"; Examples of classifying claims; Intersubjective claims; Personal standards; Judgment Converting subjective claims into objective ones?Reasoning; Reasoning to objective claims from subjective premises; Reasoning to subjective claims; The argument from analogy for other people feeling pain; Conclusion; Notes; Generalizing; What is a generalization?; Evaluating a generalization; Examples; Can a generalization be a good argument?; Appendix: Hempel's paradox of confirmation; Notes; Probabilities; Three ways to understand "probably"; The logical relation view of probability; The frequency view of probability; The subjective degree of belief view of probability Can probability theory provide a foundation for inference analysis?Conclusion; Notes; Rationality; Beliefs; Conscious rationality for reasoning; Conscious rationality for behavior; Dispositional rationality; Conclusion; Appendix: Irrational emotions; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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| spelling | Epstein, Richard L. Verfasser aut The fundamentals of argument analysis essays on logic as the art of reasoning well Richard L. Epstein Socorro, NM Advanced Reasoning Forum [2013] © 2013 1 online resource txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Essays on Logic as the Art of Reasoning Well Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 14, 2015) This series of books presents the fundamentals of logic in a style accessible to both students and scholars. The text of each essay presents a story, the main line of development of the ideas, while the notes and appendices place the research within a larger scholarly context. The essays overlap, forming a unified analysis of logic as the art of reasoning well, yet each essay is designed so that it may be read independently. The question addressed in this volume is how we can justify our beliefs through reasoning. The first essay, "Arguments," investigates what it is that we call true or false and how we reason toward truths through arguments. A general theory of argument analysis is set out on the basis of what we can assume about those with whom we reason. The next essay, "Fallacies," explains how the classification of an argument as a fallacy can be used within that general approach. In contrast, there is no agreement on what the terms "induction" and "deduction" mean, and they are not useful in evaluating arguments, as shown in "Induction and Deduction." In reasoning to truths, in the end we must take some claims as basic, not requiring any justification for accepting them. How we choose those claims and how they affect our reasoning is examined in "Base Claims." The essay "Analogies" considers how comparisons can be used as the basis of arguments, arguing from similar situations to similar conclusions. An important use of analogies is in reasoning about the mental life of other people and things, which is examined in "Subjective Claims," written with Fred Kroon and William S. Robinson. "Generalizing" examines how to argue from part of a collection or mass to the whole or a larger part. The question there is whether we are ever justified in accepting such an argument as good. "Probabilities" sets out the three main ways probability statements have been interpreted: the logical relation view, the frequency view, and the subjective degree of belief view. Each of those is shown to be inadequate to make precise the scale of plausibility of claims and the scale of the likelihood of a possibility. Many discussions of how to reason well and what counts as good reason are given in terms of who or what is rational. In the final essay, "Rationality," it's shown that what we mean by the idea of someone being rational is of very little use in evaluating reasoning or actions. This volume is meant to give a clearer idea of how to reason well, setting out methods of evaluation that are motivated in terms of our abilities and interests. At the ground of our reasoning, though, are metaphysical assumptions, too basic and too much needed in our reasoning for us to justify them through reasoning. But we can try to uncover those assumptions to see how they are important and what depends on them, which is a major them of this volume Preface; Arguments; Claims; Inferences; Arguments; Plausible claims; Contrary claims and suspending judgment; Begging the question; Valid inferences; Strong arguments; Evaluating the likelihood of a possibility; Taking account of what we (think we) know; Converting strong arguments into valid ones?; Certainty; Can a strong argument be good?; Good arguments; Repairing arguments; Examples of argument analysis; Does every good argument require a general principle as premise?; Conclusion; Appendix: The asymmetry of showing validity vs. showing invalidity; Notes; Fallacies The classical view of fallaciesCurrent views of fallacies; A definition of "fallacy"; Examples; Conclusion; Notes; Induction and Deduction; The arguer's intention; Deduction as validity; Induction as generalization; Deduction and formal logic; Conclusion; Notes; Base Claims; Analogies; What is an analogy?; Analogies and the common law; Analogies and generalizations; Conclusion; Notes; Subjective Claims; Some current definitions of "subjective"; A definition of "subjective claim"; Examples of classifying claims; Intersubjective claims; Personal standards; Judgment Converting subjective claims into objective ones?Reasoning; Reasoning to objective claims from subjective premises; Reasoning to subjective claims; The argument from analogy for other people feeling pain; Conclusion; Notes; Generalizing; What is a generalization?; Evaluating a generalization; Examples; Can a generalization be a good argument?; Appendix: Hempel's paradox of confirmation; Notes; Probabilities; Three ways to understand "probably"; The logical relation view of probability; The frequency view of probability; The subjective degree of belief view of probability Can probability theory provide a foundation for inference analysis?Conclusion; Notes; Rationality; Beliefs; Conscious rationality for reasoning; Conscious rationality for behavior; Dispositional rationality; Conclusion; Appendix: Irrational emotions; Notes; Bibliography; Index PHILOSOPHY / Logic bisacsh Logic Reasoning Teaching Logic fast Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Epstein, Richard L The Fundamentals of Argument Analysis |
| spellingShingle | Epstein, Richard L. The fundamentals of argument analysis essays on logic as the art of reasoning well This series of books presents the fundamentals of logic in a style accessible to both students and scholars. The text of each essay presents a story, the main line of development of the ideas, while the notes and appendices place the research within a larger scholarly context. The essays overlap, forming a unified analysis of logic as the art of reasoning well, yet each essay is designed so that it may be read independently. The question addressed in this volume is how we can justify our beliefs through reasoning. The first essay, "Arguments," investigates what it is that we call true or false and how we reason toward truths through arguments. A general theory of argument analysis is set out on the basis of what we can assume about those with whom we reason. The next essay, "Fallacies," explains how the classification of an argument as a fallacy can be used within that general approach. In contrast, there is no agreement on what the terms "induction" and "deduction" mean, and they are not useful in evaluating arguments, as shown in "Induction and Deduction." In reasoning to truths, in the end we must take some claims as basic, not requiring any justification for accepting them. How we choose those claims and how they affect our reasoning is examined in "Base Claims." The essay "Analogies" considers how comparisons can be used as the basis of arguments, arguing from similar situations to similar conclusions. An important use of analogies is in reasoning about the mental life of other people and things, which is examined in "Subjective Claims," written with Fred Kroon and William S. Robinson. "Generalizing" examines how to argue from part of a collection or mass to the whole or a larger part. The question there is whether we are ever justified in accepting such an argument as good. "Probabilities" sets out the three main ways probability statements have been interpreted: the logical relation view, the frequency view, and the subjective degree of belief view. Each of those is shown to be inadequate to make precise the scale of plausibility of claims and the scale of the likelihood of a possibility. Many discussions of how to reason well and what counts as good reason are given in terms of who or what is rational. In the final essay, "Rationality," it's shown that what we mean by the idea of someone being rational is of very little use in evaluating reasoning or actions. This volume is meant to give a clearer idea of how to reason well, setting out methods of evaluation that are motivated in terms of our abilities and interests. At the ground of our reasoning, though, are metaphysical assumptions, too basic and too much needed in our reasoning for us to justify them through reasoning. But we can try to uncover those assumptions to see how they are important and what depends on them, which is a major them of this volume Preface; Arguments; Claims; Inferences; Arguments; Plausible claims; Contrary claims and suspending judgment; Begging the question; Valid inferences; Strong arguments; Evaluating the likelihood of a possibility; Taking account of what we (think we) know; Converting strong arguments into valid ones?; Certainty; Can a strong argument be good?; Good arguments; Repairing arguments; Examples of argument analysis; Does every good argument require a general principle as premise?; Conclusion; Appendix: The asymmetry of showing validity vs. showing invalidity; Notes; Fallacies The classical view of fallaciesCurrent views of fallacies; A definition of "fallacy"; Examples; Conclusion; Notes; Induction and Deduction; The arguer's intention; Deduction as validity; Induction as generalization; Deduction and formal logic; Conclusion; Notes; Base Claims; Analogies; What is an analogy?; Analogies and the common law; Analogies and generalizations; Conclusion; Notes; Subjective Claims; Some current definitions of "subjective"; A definition of "subjective claim"; Examples of classifying claims; Intersubjective claims; Personal standards; Judgment Converting subjective claims into objective ones?Reasoning; Reasoning to objective claims from subjective premises; Reasoning to subjective claims; The argument from analogy for other people feeling pain; Conclusion; Notes; Generalizing; What is a generalization?; Evaluating a generalization; Examples; Can a generalization be a good argument?; Appendix: Hempel's paradox of confirmation; Notes; Probabilities; Three ways to understand "probably"; The logical relation view of probability; The frequency view of probability; The subjective degree of belief view of probability Can probability theory provide a foundation for inference analysis?Conclusion; Notes; Rationality; Beliefs; Conscious rationality for reasoning; Conscious rationality for behavior; Dispositional rationality; Conclusion; Appendix: Irrational emotions; Notes; Bibliography; Index PHILOSOPHY / Logic bisacsh Logic Reasoning Teaching Logic fast |
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