Archives of the Logical Reasoning textbook

• Cosmetic changes 2023-07-27
• Cosmetic changes such as typos 2022-06-22. Revision of the section "Assessing a Source's Credibility" by describing Wikipedia.
• Mentioned in ch. 1 the need to be aware that your opponent is holding a position primarily for emotional reasons. Added remarks about the ambiguity of the Egyptian hieroglyphic language into chapter 2. More info about social media in chapter 4. There are some additional sentences in chapter 11 about statements vs. sentences and about formal reasoning applied to vague sentences. 2021-07-11
• Minor revisions regarding fake news and ad hominem arguments. Elabortion in chapter 6 regarding utilitarianism in chapter 6 and in chapter 13 regarding how to tell whether coin tosses and lotteries are biased. Revision of chapter 15 on scientific reasoning. A few added exercises. 2020-05-15
• Fixed typo in table of contents. Changed Word format from .doc to .docx. Made the book be 803 compliant for readers with disabilities. 2019-08-11
• Revised chapter 1 to say scientists are the best example of a group of critical thinkers. More information was added about how to locate implicit premises. Revised chapter 5 on the red herring fallacy. Moved the section "Giving Too Many Details" from ch. 4 to ch. 5. Added a lawyer joke into chapter 2 in the section on explanation, plus a new concept check. Inserted into chapter 12 some Venn-only diagrams, and added explanation of the limitations of the Venn-Euler method. Revised some miscellaneous typos and added some cosmetic reformatting. 2019-07-07
• Revision of chapter 14 section "Inferring Cause from Correlation;" removal of typographical errors; reformatting. 2018-09-20
• Revision of chapter 13 section "Statistics and Probability" and the chapter 15 section "What is Science?". 2018-07-07
• Revision of the early pages of chapter 15. 2018-06-22
• Revisions to scattered homework problems and miscellaneous paragraphs. New version of chapter 4. 2018-05-21
• New joke about pseudoscience in Ch. 14; fixed typos in Chapter 3. 2018-01-01
• Revision of Chapter 11. 2017-12-13
• Addition to the section Exaggeration and Lying in Chapter 7. 2017-12-02
• Some revision to the section on Misinformation and Fake News in Chapter 4. 2017-11-17
• Fixed typos. 2017-06-06