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Pages: 267
Authors: Forrest E. Baird
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-20 - Publisher: InterVarsity Press

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How exactly does logic work? What makes some arguments valid and others not? What does a faithful use of logic look like? In this introduction to logic, philoso
How We Reason
Language: en
Pages: 584
Authors: Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Good reasoning can lead to success; bad reasoning can lead to catastrophe. Yet, it's not obvious how we reason, and why we make mistakes. This book looks at the
Think Again
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Our personal and political worlds are rife with arguments and disagreements, some of them petty and vitriolic. The inability to compromise and understand the op
How We Know What Isn't So
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Thomas Gilovich
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-06-30 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Thomas Gilovich offers a wise and readable guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life. When can we trust what we believe—that "teams and players hav
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Paul Erickson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-22 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality command