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This brief introduction to making effective arguments helps readers to understand the basics of sound reasoning and to learn how to use it to persuade others. Practical, inexpensive, and easy-to-read, the book enables students in a wide variety of courses to improve the clarity of their writing and public speaking. It equips readers to formulate firmly grounded, clearly articulated, and logically...

training in the subject, logic can seem to be somewhat mysterious and perhaps esoteric. But in truth, logic is one of the most practical branches of philosophy. Logic is the study of good reasoning, and it is likely that you already grasp basics of logic just through your own common sense and innate reasoning abilities. As we think about good reasoning and good arguments, the most basic and fundamental principles of logic are often summed up in what are called the three laws of logic or sometimes
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