McInerny has managed to make that field remarkably profound and lucid to the extent that the jacket pocket compares "Being Logical" to Strunck and White's Elements of Style.Ī mastery of logic begins with an understanding of right reasoning. Written explicitly for the layman, McInerny shows that logic is a field that has profound bearing on our lives. It can be seen as science, art, and skill and goes to the very core of our abruptly to think, analyze, debate, and communicate. Logic is the basis of all human thinking. This is his first book on logic, but as he writes, logic undergirds all thinking and goes to the core of what we mean by human intelligence.
The author has written three previous textbooks on philosophy. Q McInerny, a professor of logic to student s at Notre Dame, the University of Kentucky, and Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary.
The book Being Logical: A guide to Good Thinking (Random House, New York, 2004, pp.131) was authored by D. Include in this paper precise definitions and your own example of the following logical errors: undistributed middle, begging the question, straw man, abusing tradition, democratic fallacy, ad hominem, uses and abuses of expertise, red herring, inability to disprove does not prove, false dilemma, and simplistic thinking, ¶ … logical errors one may make as discussed in Part Five of the book (1200-1500 words).
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