"Geometry" is a new text for high school geometry that continues the approach that has made AMSCO a leader in presenting mathematics in a contemporary, integrated manner. Formal logic is presented as the foundation for geometric reasoning. A logical system of reasoning and proof is carefully built using appropriate language, postulates, and theorems. Reading age for native speakers: High School students
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Cause and effect, conditionals, explanations. essays on logic as the art of reasoning well (2011)
This series of books presents the fundamentals of reasoning well, 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 footnotes and appendices place the research within a larger scholarly context. The essays overlap, forming a unified analysis of reasoning, yet each essay is designed so that it may be read independently of the others. The topic of this volume is the evaluation of reasoning about cause and effect, reasoning using conditionals, and reasoning that involves explanations.
Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning (Video)
Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, 2nd Edition, is a rigorous introduction to the formal study of argumentation—communication that seeks to persuade others through reasoned judgment. Why should you practice this kind of argument analysis? "It enables you to understand what's going on in the argument," says Professor Zarefsky.
Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, 2nd Edition, is a rigorous introduction to the formal study of argumentation—communication that seeks to persuade others through reasoned judgment.In 24 lectures you learn the building blocks of an argument, the different categories of argument and the issues that are at stake in each, the kinds of evidence that serve as proof in an argument, and many other aspects...