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    Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking
    Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking
    Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking
    Audiobook3 hours

    Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking

    Written by D.Q. McInerny

    Narrated by Al Kessel

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    About this audiobook

    Logic is synonymous with reason, judgment, sense, wisdom, and sanity. Being logical is the ability to create concise and reasoned arguments-arguments that build from given premises, using evidence, to a genuine conclusion. But mastering logical thinking also requires studying and understanding illogical thinking, both to sharpen one's own skills and to protect against incoherent, or deliberately misleading, reasoning.

    Elegant, pithy, and precise, Being Logical breaks logic down to its essentials through clear analysis, accessible examples, and focused insights. D. Q. McInerny covers the sources of illogical thinking, from naïve optimism to narrow-mindedness, before dissecting the various tactics-red herrings, diversions, and simplistic reasoning-the illogical use in place of effective reasoning.

    An indispensable guide to using logic to advantage in everyday life, this is a concise, accessible book. Written explicitly for the layperson, McInerny's Being Logical promises to take its place beside Strunk and White's The Elements of Style as a classic of lucid, invaluable advice.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 16, 2019
    ISBN9781977348296
    Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking

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    • 5/5
      Very very precise with its words of use.goodread for those who want a strict learning book
    • 5/5
      Although an excellent introduction to logical thinking, it could have been better with more examples.
    • 4/5
      Enjoyable short discussion with the stated purposes of being The Elements of Style for logic.Very topical in the time of wokeism and rejection of expertise. As the author implies, we all need to know how to reason.
    • 1/5
      What passes for logic (and linguistics and epistemology) for someone who doesn't take into account any scholarship in logic, argumentation, linguistics, epistemology, or philosophy of science since 1930.
    • 3/5
      Brief. Thorough. Dry.
    • 4/5
      A brief introduction to logic, presented without mathematics or formal apparatus. It is basically an exhortation to thinking clearly, based on the classical concept of logic from Aristotle. It had good summaries of logical fallacies.