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Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking
Written by D.Q. McInerny
Narrated by Al Kessel
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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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.
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.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very very precise with its words of use.goodread for those who want a strict learning book
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Although an excellent introduction to logical thinking, it could have been better with more examples.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enjoyable 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.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5What 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.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Brief. Thorough. Dry.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A 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.