Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life

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Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1988 - 346 páginas
This textbook introduces students to logic and contemporary rhetoric, particularly as applied to problems encountered in everyday life as well as social and political issues. Using examples drawn from sources such as television, newspapers, advertisements, and political speeches, Kahane (U. of Maryland) and Cavender (College of Marin) encourage students to think critically about issues such as abortion, diets, drugs, and astrology. A sampling of topics includes deduction and induction, fallacious reasoning, the manipulation of language, evaluating and writing cogent essays, and sources of information. c. Book News Inc.

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INTRODUCTION
3
FALLACIOUS REASONINGI
21
FALLACIOUS REASONINGIII
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Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life
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abortion accept advertising American appeal appeal to authority argue audience background beliefs believe Boland Amendment campaign candidate cigarettes cogent conclusion Congress course deductively valid diet doublespeak emotive evaluate evidence example experts fact fallacy false false dilemma Garry Trudeau going human important induction instance issue kind magazine marijuana mass media means million newspaper Nixon nuclear Parade magazine particular percent person play political politicians poll premises President Reagan probability public school textbooks question readers reason relevant Reprinted by permission rhetoric Richard Nixon Ronald Reagan Russians Senate smoking Soviet speech statistics story Syndicate television tell tend texts theory thesis things tion tobacco true truth TV Guide United Universal Press Syndicate Washington Washington Monthly women Woody Allen words world view write wrong York

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Howard Kahane, April 19, 1928 - May 2, 2001 Howard Kahane was born on April 19, 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio. He received his bachelor's degree in 1954, and hid master's in 1958 from the University of California at Los Angeles. Kahane received his Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1962. After graduating, Kahane taught at Whitman College, the University of Kansas, American University and the University of Maryland at Baltimore. He then went on to teach philosophy at Baruch College in New York. In 1971 he published his most famous work, "Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life," which has produced nine editions and is considered a handbook for philosophy teachers. In it, Kahane attempts to rid logic of its mathematical approach and make it a tool for assessing truthfulness. Howard Kahane died on May 2, 2001 in Mill Valley California after a heart attack. He was 73.

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TítuloLogic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life
AutorHoward Kahane
Edição5
EditoraWadsworth Publishing Company, 1988
ISBN0534090184, 9780534090180
Número de páginas346 páginas
  
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