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by Alec Fisher (Author) "We learn most of what we know from teachers and experts of one kind and another and this is not surprising in a highly specialised..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 236 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 2 edition (23 Sep 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0521654815
  • ISBN-13: 978-0521654814
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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"As an introduction to logic which prepares students to use the discipline in future studies, Real Arguments has no serious competitors." Informal Logic


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This new and expanded edition of The Logic of Real Arguments explains a distinctive method for analysing and evaluating arguments. It discusses many examples, ranging from newspaper articles to extracts from classic texts, and from easy passages to much more difficult ones. It shows students how to use the question ‘What argument or evidence would justify me in believing P?’, and also how to deal with suppositional arguments beginning with the phrase ‘Suppose that X were the case.’ It aims to help students to think critically about the kind of sustained, theoretical arguments which they commonly encounter in the course of their studies, including arguments about the natural world, about society, about policy, and about philosophy. It will be valuable for students and their teachers in a wide range of disciplines including philosophy, law and the social sciences.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent guide to argument analysis, 28 Dec 2004
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This is a very, very good guide to spotting arguments in real texts. I could see this being an invaluable aid for critical reading classes. Rather than giving a series of deductive rules of inference, and some rather irrelevant toy examples, Fisher presents *real* texts and gives the reader a guide on how to analyse them, using a series of clearly laid out heuristics. He does this by giving the reader the heuristics and the text, giving them a little helping hand, and then also providing a fully marked up version of the text with the arguments clearly identified (or, when this is not clear, an indication of why this would be.)

I find it odd that the other review here found the book impossible to read, especially as the references to Copi and Cohen are neither numerous in the text nor necessary for its comprehension. The only book I can think of which actually does this is Doug Walton's "Argument Structure: A Pragmatic Theory", which while being theoretically interesting does not actually present applications of its ideas to real texts.

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I was extremely disappointed with the approach taken by the author of this book. I found myself relying on Copi & Cohen's 'Introduction to Logic' in order to make sense of some of the author's statements. I think that in an attempt to make this book accessible, the author has only created a vague and deeply unhelpful textbook. Not recommended.
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