Within Reason: A Guide to Non-Deductive Reasoning

by John W. Burbidge

Seldom does human reasoning fit the standards of deduction. Yet logicians have tended to use the strict standards of deductive validity for assessing all inferences. Within Reason develops instead a way of assessing arguments and inferences that is directly appropriate to the non-deductive forms people regularly use. It uses analogy, and argument from analogy, to provide a thread that unites various forms: raising objections, inductions of various...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0921149557
• ISBN13: 9780921149552
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.