Lies, Damned Lies, or Statistics How to Tell the Truth with Statistics by Poritz, Jonathan A.

Access online version

forall x Calgary by Magnus, P.D, Button, Tim, Trueman, Robert, Zach, Richard, Loftis, J. Robert, Thomas-Bolduc, Aaron

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Key notions of logic -- Truth-functional logic -- Truth tables -- Natural deduction for TFL -- First-order logic -- Interpretations -- Natural deduction for FOL -- Modal logic -- Metatheory -- Appendices -- Glossary…”
Access online version

forall x Dortmund by Wimmer, Simon

Access online version

Inferring and Explaining by Johnson, Jeffery L.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Valuing Truth -- Chapter 2: Skepticism -- Chapter 3: The Concept of Knowledge -- Chapter 4: Arguments -- Chapter 5: Inference to the Best Explanation -- Chapter 6: New Data and Experimentation -- Chapter 7: Semmelweis and Childbed Fever -- Chapter 8: Darwin and Common Descent -- Chapter 9: Testimony -- Chapter 10: Textual Interpretation -- Chapter 11: Statistics -- Chapter 12: Correlations and Causes -- Chapter 13: Capital Punishment and the Constitution -- Chapter 14: Evidence, Explanation, and Narrative -- Chapter 15: Explanatory Virtue and Truth…”
Access online version

A Guide to Good Reasoning Cultivating Intellectual Virtues by Wilson, David C.

Table of Contents: “…-- Part Two: Clarifying Arguments -- Chapter Three: A Framework for Clarifying -- Chapter Four: Streamlining -- Chapter Five: Specifying -- Chapter Six: Structuring -- Part Three: Evaluating Arguments -- Chapter Seven: A Framework for Evaluating -- Chapter Eight: Fallacies -- Part Four: Evaluating the Truth of the Premises -- Chapter Nine: How to Think About Truth -- Part Five: Evaluating Deductive Logic -- Chapter Ten: How to Think About Deductive Logic -- Chapter Eleven: If–Then Arguments -- Chapter Twelve: Either–Or Arguments and More -- Part Six: Evaluating Inductive Logic -- Chapter Thirteen: How to Think About Inductive Logic -- Chapter Fourteen: Inductive Generalization -- Chapter Fifteen: Arguments from Analogy -- Chapter Sixteen: Explanatory Arguments -- --…”
Access online version

Elements of Creative Writing by Schraffenberger, J.D, Morgan, Rachel, Tracey, Grant

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Fiction -- Chapter One: One Great Way to Write a Short Story -- Chapter Two: Plotting -- Chapter Three: Counterpointed Plotting -- Chapter Four: Show and Tell -- Chapter Five: Characterization and Method Writing -- Chapter Six: Character and Dialouge -- Chapter Seven: Setting, Stillness, and Voice -- Chapter Eight: Point of View -- Chapter Nine: Learning the Unwritten Rules -- Poetry -- Chapter One: A Poetry State of Mind -- Chapter Two: The Architecture of a Poem -- Chapter Three: Sound -- Chapter Four: Inspiration and Risk -- Chapter Five: Endings and Beginnings -- Chapter Six: Figurative Language -- Chapter Seven: Forms, Forms, Forms -- Chapter Eight: Go to the Image -- Chapter Nine: The Difficult Simplicity of Short Poems and Killing Darlings -- Creative Nonfiction -- Chapter One: Creative Nonfiction and the Essay -- Chapter Two: Truth and Memory, Truth in Memory -- Chapter Three: Research and History -- Chapter Four: Writing Environments -- Chapter Five: Notes on Style -- Chapter Six: Figurative Language -- Chapter Seven: Imagery and the Senses -- Chapter Eight: Writing the Body -- Chapter Nine: Forms -- Back Matter -- Authors -- Contributors -- North American Review Staff…”
Access online version

Analyzing meaning An introduction to semantics and pragmatics by Kroeger, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Foundational concepts -- Chapter 1: The meaning of meaning -- Chapter 2: Referring, denoting, and expressing -- Chapter 3: Truth and inference -- Chapter 4: The logic of truth -- II. …”
Access online version

Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers by Caulfield, Mike

Access online version

Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking by Van Cleave, Matthew

Table of Contents: “…-- 2.2 Propositional logic and the four basic truth functional connectives -- 2.3 Negation and disjunction -- 2.4 Using parentheses to translate complex sentences -- 2.5 “Not both” and “neither nor” -- 2.6 The truth table test of validity -- 2.7 Conditionals -- 2.8 “Unless” -- 2.9 Material equivalence -- 2.10 Tautologies, contradictions, and contingent statements -- 2.11 Proofs and the 8 valid forms of inference -- 2.12 How to construct proofs -- 2.13 Short review of propositional logic -- 2.14 Categorical logic -- 2.15 The Venn test of validity for immediate categorical inferences -- 2.16 Universal statements and existential commitment -- 2.17 Venn validity for categorical syllogisms -- Chapter 3: Evaluating inductive arguments and probabilistic and statistical fallacies -- 3.1 Inductive arguments and statistical generalizations -- 3.2 Inference to the best explanation and the seven explanatory virtues -- 3.3 Analogical arguments -- 3.4 Causal arguments -- 3.5 Probability -- 3.6 The conjunction fallacy -- 3.7 The base rate fallacy -- 3.8 The small numbers fallacy -- 3.9 Regression to the mean fallacy -- 3.10 Gambler's fallacy -- Chapter 4: Informal fallacies -- 4.1 Formal vs. informal fallacies -- 4.1.1 Composition fallacy -- 4.1.2 Division fallacy -- 4.1.3 Begging the question fallacy -- 4.1.4 False dichotomy -- 4.1.5 Equivocation -- 4.2 Slippery slope fallacies -- 4.2.1 Conceptual slippery slope -- 4.2.2 Causal slippery slope -- 4.3 Fallacies of relevance -- 4.3.1 Ad hominem -- 4.3.2 Straw man -- 4.3.3 Tu quoque -- 4.3.4 Genetic -- 4.3.5 Appeal to consequences -- 4.3.6 Appeal to authority -- Answers to exercisesGlossary/Index…”
Access online version

Principles of Political Economy by Saros, Daniel E.

Access online version

An Introduction to Formal Logic by Magnus, P.D

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 2: Sentential logic -- Chapter 3: Truth tables -- Chapter 4: Quantified logic -- Chapter 5: Formal semantics -- Chapter 6: Proofs…”
Access online version

Algorithms and Data Structures With Applications to Graphics and Geometry by Nievergelt, Jurg, Hinrichs, Klaus

Table of Contents: “…Syntax analysis -- Part III: Objects, algorithms, programs. -- 8. Truth values, the data type 'set', and bit acrobatics -- 9. …”
Access online version

Arguing Using Critical Thinking by Marteney, Jim

Table of Contents: “…1: Standing Up For Your Point Of View -- 2: Communicating An Argument -- 3: Clash -- 4: Claims -- 5: Building Your Case With Issues, Analysis And Contentions -- 6: Evidence -- 7: Reasoning -- 8: Validity Or Truth -- 9: Changing Beliefs, Attitudes and Behavior -- 10: Decision Making - Judging an Argument -- 11: Discovering, Examining and Improving Our Reality -- 12: The Foundations of Critical Thinking…”
Access online version

An Introduction to Logic From Everyday Life to Formal Systems by Mosley, Albert, Baltazar, Eulalio

Access online version

Writing and Literature Composition as Inquiry, Learning, Thinking, and Communication by Bennet, Tanya Long

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 1: Reading Like a Professional -- Chapter 2: Forming a Perspective on the Subject -- Chapter 3: Effective Argument -- Chapter 4: Experiencing the Power of Poetry -- Chapter 5: The Truths of Fiction -- Chapter 6: All the World's a Stage -- Chapter 7: Creative Nonfiction, The Fourth Genre -- Chapter 8: The Literary Analysis Essay -- Chapter 9: The Research Paper…”
Access online version

American Literatures Prior to 1865 by Peterson, Scott D.

Table of Contents: “…Literature of Nineteenth Century Reform -Equiano, Truth & Stowe -- Unit XVII. Literature of the New Nation - Irving & Cooper -- Unit XVIII. …”
Access online version

Book of Proof by Hammack, Richard

Access online version

The Adventure of Physics - Vol. III Light, Charges, and Brains by Schiller, Christoph

Access online version

The Adventure of Physics - Vol. IV The Quantum of Change by Schiller, Christoph

Access online version

International Finance Theory and Policy by Suranovic, Steve

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Introductory Finance Issues: Current Patterns, Past History, and International Institutions -- Chapter 2: National Income and the Balance of Payments Accounts -- Chapter 3: The Whole Truth about Trade Imbalances -- Chapter 4: Foreign Exchange Markets and Rates of Return -- Chapter 5: Interest Rate Parity -- Chapter 6: Purchasing Power Parity -- Chapter 7: Interest Rate Determination -- Chapter 8: National Output Determination -- Chapter 9: The AA-DD Model -- Chapter 10: Policy Effects with Floating Exchange Rates -- Chapter 11: Fixed Exchange Rates -- Chapter 12: Policy Effects with Fixed Exchange Rates -- Chapter 13: Fixed versus Floating Exchange Rates…”
Access online version