Think Again - How to Reason and Argue
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Reasoning is important. This course will teach you how to do it well. You will learn some simple but vital rules to follow in thinking about any topic at all and some common and tempting mistakes to avoid in reasoning. We will discuss how to identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments by other people (including politicians, used car salesmen, and teachers) and how to construct arguments of your own in order to help you decide what to believe or what to do. These skills will be useful in dealing with whatever matters most to you.
Think Again - How to Reason and Argue
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2 - 2 - Lecture 1-2 - What is an Argument_ (7_42)
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2 - 3 - Lecture 1-3 - What are Arguments Used For_ Justification (5_32)
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2 - 4 - Lecture 1-4 - Strong Arguments Don_'t Always Persuade Everyone (8_11)
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2 - 5 - Lecture 1-5 - What Else are Arguments Used For_ Explanation (13_40)
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2 - 6 - Lecture 1-6 - What are Arguments Made Of_ Language (14_10)
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2 - 7 - Lecture 1-7 - Meaning (9_02)
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2 - 8 - Lecture 1-8 - Linguistic Acts (6_58)
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2 - 9 - Lecture 1-9 - Speech Acts (9_06)
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2 - 10 - Lecture 1-10 - Conversational Acts (17_45)
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3 - 1 - Lecture 2-1 - Argument Markers (12_52)
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3 - 2 - Lecture 2-2 - Standard Form (3_29)
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3 - 3 - Lecture 2-3 - A Problem For Arguments (12_54)
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3 - 4 - Lecture 2-4 - Assuring (14_15)
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3 - 5 - Lecture 2-5 - Guarding (8_01)
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3 - 6 - Lecture 2-6 - Discounting (10_20)
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3 - 7 - Lecture 2-7 - Evaluation (17_06)
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3 - 8 - Lecture 2-8 - Close Analysis Part I (20_00)
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3 - 9 - Lecture 2-9 - Close Analysis Part II (13_12)
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3 - 10 - Lecture 2-10 - More Close Analysis (17_11)
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4 - 1 - Lecture 3-1 - Validity (24_19)
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4 - 2 - Lecture 3-2 - Soundness (4_29)
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4 - 3 - Lecture 3-3 - Get Down to Basics (21_34)
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4 - 4 - Lecture 3-4 - Sharpen Edges (17_19)
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4 - 5 - Lecture 3-5 - Organize Parts (14_48)
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4 - 6 - Lecture 3-6 - Fill in Gaps (22_51)
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4 - 7 - Lecture 3-7 - Conclude (2_00)
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4 - 8 - Lecture 3-8 - An Example of Reconstruction - Part I (9_14)
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4 - 9 - Lecture 3-9 - An Example of Reconstruction - Part II (9_36)
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4 - 10 - Lecture 3-10 - An Example of Reconstruction - Part III (10_03)
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5 - 1 - Lecture 4-1 - Introduction to Deductive Logic (10_27)
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5 - 2 - Lecture 4-2 - Propositions and Propositional Connectives (4_42)
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5 - 3 - Lecture 4-3 - __And__ and the Truth-Functional Connectives (10_52)
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5 - 4 - Lecture 4-4 - Using Truth Tables to Show Validity (5_02)
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5 - 5 - Lecture 4-5 - Disjunction (10_38)
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5 - 6 - Lecture 4-6 - Combining Conjunctions and Disjunctions (6_23)
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5 - 7 - Lecture 4-7 - Negation and Truth Functional Operators (7_23)
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5 - 8 - Lecture 4-8 - Negating Conjuctions and Disjunctions (3_34)
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5 - 9 - Lecture 4-9 - The Conditional (14_27)
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5 - 10 - Lecture 4-10 - Conditionals in ordinary language (3_33)
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5 - 11 - Lecture 4-11 - Biconditionals (7_19)
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5 - 12 - Lecture 4-12 - Conclusion (1_13)
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6 - 1 - Lecture 5-1 - Categorical Logic (10_36)
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6 - 2 - Lecture 5-2 - Categories and Quantifiers (17_43)
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6 - 3 - Lecture 5-3 - How Quantifiers Modify Categories (9_56)
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6 - 4 - Lecture 5-4 - Immediate Categorical Inferences (10_37)
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6 - 5 - Lecture 5-5 - Syllogisms (9_51)
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6 - 6 - Lecture 5-6 - Categories, Individuals, and Language (4_57)
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6 - 7 - Lecture 5-7 - Venn Diagrams and Validity (13_30)
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6 - 8 - Lecture 5-8 - Other Ways of Expressing A, E, I, or O Propositions (7_14)
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6 - 9 - Lecture 5-9 - Reasoning from Venn Diagrams or Truth Tables Alone (14_54)
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7 - 1 - Lecture 6-1 - What is Induction_ (14_46)
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7 - 2 - Lecture 6-2 - Generalizations from Samples (9_11)
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7 - 3 - Lecture 6-3 - When are Generalizations Strong_ (20_48)
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7 - 4 - Lecture 6-4 - Applying Generalizations (17_52)
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7 - 5 - Lecture 6-5 - Inference to the Best Explanation (8_14)
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7 - 6 - Lecture 6-6 - Which Explanation is Best_ (14_45)
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7 - 7 - Lecture 6-7 - A Student Example of Inference to the Best Explanation (8_19)
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7 - 8 - Lecture 6-8 - Arguments from Analogy (17_47)
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8 - 1 - Lecture 7-1 - Causal Reasoning (16_05)
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8 - 2 - Lecture 7-2 - Negative Sufficient Condition Tests (9_28)
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8 - 3 - Lecture 7-3 - Positive Sufficient Condition Tests (10_09)
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8 - 4 - Lecture 7-4 - Negative Necessary Condition Tests (4_36)
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8 - 5 - Lecture 7-5 - Positive Necessary Condition Tests (6_51)
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8 - 6 - Lecture 7-6 - Complex Conditions (11_34)
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8 - 7 - Lecture 7-7 - Correlation Versus Causation (20_38)
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8 - 8 - Lecture 7-8 - Causal Fallacies (5_42)
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9 - 1 - Lecture 8-1 - Why Probability Matters (11_02)
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9 - 2 - Lecture 8-2 - What is Probability_ (9_20)
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