Critical Reasoning for Beginners

Setting out Arguments Logic Book Style Video

Critical Reasoning for Beginners

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Part three of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this lecture we will focus on how to identify and analyse arguments, and how to set arguments out logic book-style to make them easier to evaluate.

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