Principles and Problems of Right Thinking: A Textbook for Logic, Reflective Thinking, and Orientation CoursesHarper & brothers, 1931 - 529 pages |
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... reasoning will assume something like this form : Trips downtown on the bus are apt to take forty minutes . This projected trip is a trip downtown on the bus . Therefore this projected trip will be apt to take forty minutes . Sometimes ...
... reasoning will assume something like this form : Trips downtown on the bus are apt to take forty minutes . This projected trip is a trip downtown on the bus . Therefore this projected trip will be apt to take forty minutes . Sometimes ...
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... reasoning . Hence there is no necessary relation between the validity of any reasoning and the truth of its conclusion , or premises . But , and this is the fundamental point for our present analysis , if the premises are true and the ...
... reasoning . Hence there is no necessary relation between the validity of any reasoning and the truth of its conclusion , or premises . But , and this is the fundamental point for our present analysis , if the premises are true and the ...
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... reasoning , but cannot with assurance de- is really cide whether the author is assuming the premise needed to make the reasoning valid , or assuming something else , and if so what . The rule most sensible and genial to follow at this ...
... reasoning , but cannot with assurance de- is really cide whether the author is assuming the premise needed to make the reasoning valid , or assuming something else , and if so what . The rule most sensible and genial to follow at this ...
Contents
THINKING AND RIGHT THINKING | 3 |
REFLECTIVE THINKING AND ITS ALTERNATIVES | 18 |
HINDRANCES AND AIDS TO RIGHT THINKING | 31 |
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