Chapter 1. Mastering the Art of Argumentation

Chapter 2: Going Beneath the Surface

It’s a Given – Assumption in Argumentation.

People Pleasing – Arguing for the Audience

Taking a stab at it – Conditions of Uncertainty

Feeling Justified – Justifying our Claims

Risky Business – Argumentation Involves Risks

Shall We Dance – An Interactive Process

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Chapter 3: Smart-Casual - Formal and Informal Argumentation

A Black-Tie Affair – Formal Argumentation

Pièce de résistance – Syllogism

The Right Conditions – Conditional Syllogism

Two Paths Diverge in a wood – Disjunctive syllogism

Speak from the heart – Informal Argumentation

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Chapter 4: Mapping out the Terrain

Do you want to go there? – Analysing Controversies

Ill be the judge of that – Arguments Explore the Uncertain

Not Seeing the Wood for the Trees – Types of Controversies

Staking Your Claim – Claims and their Categorisation

Do you have a Warrant? – Argumentation as a Process of Components

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Chapter 5: The Structure of Complex Arguments

Lets Resolve this – Resolution in Arguments

So many issues – Organising the issues in complex arguments

The Map isn’t the Territory – Uses and limitations of Argument Models

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Chapter 6: Ways to Construct a Case

Getting your Ducks in a Row – Constructing Persuasive arguments

Know your Place – Topoi

Just in Case – Considerations in Case Construction

Game Set and Match – The Burden of Proof and Rejoinder

Opposing Forces – Strong and weak Arguments

Just Say When – Selecting the Amplitude in Arguments

Where shall I start? – Sequence in Arguments

Choices, choices, Patterns – The Tapestry of Argument

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Chapter 7: The Crux of the Argument

Stuck in the Middle with You – Stasis

What are you on about? – Stasis Categories

Do you think that's air you're breathing? – Stasis and Topoi Matrix

Ships Passing in the Mist – Stasis and the Central Issues of an Argument

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Chapter 8: The Martial Art of Argumentation

A Sage for Every Age – Confucius Catalyst of Controversy and Champion of Merit

Bend Like a Reed – The Dynamics of Controversy

Defense as the best Offence – Attacking an Argument

Achilles Heel – Targeting your Approach.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – Your Options in the Argument

If you can't find a way, make a way – Arranging the Attacks

From King Pyrrhus to Agincourt – Commitment to the Attack

Use the Force Luke – Considering Counter Arguments

Parry, Riposte – Refutation in Argumentation

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Chapter 9: The Power of Words and Style in Argumentation

What you See is What you get – The Impact of Definition on Scope

A Slippery Heap – Clarity in our Definitions

Now that you put it that way – Figures of Speech

As Stipulated – Stipulative and Operational Definitions

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Chapter 10: A Glossary of Tropes Used in Argumentation

Glossary

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Chapter 11: Understanding Evidence

It’s for the Birds – Evidence the Cornerstone of Arguments

The Nitty Gritty – Speech-act Philosophy

It’s Written in the Stars – Different Types of Evidence

Familiar Friends – Types of Evidence Unpacked

Playing to the Crowd – Understanding your Audience

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Chapter 12: Tying up the Loose Ends

Sorting the Puzzle Pieces – Patterns of Inference and Warrant

Is this Warranted? – Examples and Generalizations

Birds of a feather – Analogy

It’s Literally Like… Literal Analogies

The Winds of Change – Figurative Examples

Pointing the Finger – Sign Inferences

Of Cause and Consequence – Causal Inferences

Oh, How Common – Commonplaces and Form

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Chapter 13: Eclectic Patterns of Inference

A Rule of Thumb – Reasoning with Rules

What's it worth to you? – Arguing from Values

A House Divided – Dissociation

What was that again? – Recap

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Chapter 14: Arguments: An Opportunity on many Fronts

Between you and me – Spheres of Argument

Where's this coming from? – Migration of Arguments

Rocky Roads – Day-to-day exchanges

We Need to Have a Talk – Critical Conversations

We just don't Gel – Coalescent Argumentation

What a Weirdo – The Power of Perspectivism

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Chapter 15: Argumentation and the Model Citizen

No Backseat Driving – Public Policy

Tragedy of the Commons – Public Arguments

Testing, testing 123 – Connecting with your Audience

What Eases Me Pleases Me – Naive Theories of Attribution

Are you with us or against us? – A Centrist Perspective

Flying The Flag – Condensation Symbols

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Chapter 16: Critical Thinking - Argumentations Superpower

The Logic of Logicality – Critical Thinking as a Tool

This is Meta – Metacognition

The Scoop on Scepticism

A Method in all the Madness – The Scientific Method

Making Provision – Science is Evolving and Provisional

Science and Schmience – Science and Pseudoscience

Little Boxes – Categorising and Labelling

Vested Interests – Emotional Investment

Missing in Action – Misinformation

Assumption – The Mother of all Mess-ups

Bricks, Sticks and Straw – The Logic behind Logic

Locomotion – Motivations

Navigating the Noise – Uncertainty in Decision-Making

To be or not to be – Being a Critical Thinker

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Chapter 17: Motivated Reasoning

The Things that Compel Us – Beliefs and Emotions

What's in the Noggin? – The Human Brain

Needs that drive us – Psychological Needs

The Pleasure Trap – The Brains Rewards and Punishment System

There Can Be Only One – The Need for Control

Works Like a…. Charm? – Superstitious Thinking

It’s Simple – The Desire for Simplicity

Mining for Meaning – Meaning and Causality

The Steam in Self-Esteem – The Need for Self Esteem

A House Divided – Cognitive Dissonance

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Chapter 18: Senses that Drive Us

Fair is Fair – Inner Senses

In Search of Morality – The Moral Sense

In League with Justice – The Sense of Justice

Me Myself and I – Sense of Identity

Sensing our Purpose – The Sense of Purpose

A Place in this World – The Sense of Belonging

Getting to the Essence – Essentialism

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Chapter 19: Seeing is Believing or is it?

Seeing is Believing... or is it?

Through the looking glass – Senses and Perceptio

Abracadabra – Manipulating Flaws in Perception

But is it, Art? – Art and Perception

In the Eye of the Beholder – Perception and Representation

The Hear and Now – Hearing and Perceptions

Travelling at the Speed of Thought – Temporal Synchronisation

Blending of the Senses – Synaesthesia

Attention Tension – The limitations of Attention

Switch -Tasking – The Myth of Multitasking

Are you sure…? – Eyewitness Testimony

We are not in Kansas Anymore – The Reality Construct

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Chapter 20: Memory and its imperfections

So long and thanks for all the Memories

Vividness isn’t Veracity – Flashbulb Memories

Hey, that was my idea! – Source Amnesia

From what I can recall – Truth Amnesia

Confabulating Confessions – Forced Confabulation

Whodunnit ? – Multiple Perspectives

Reality as Fiction – False Memory Syndrome

What an Experience – False Experiences

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Chapter 21: Pattern Recognition

Keeping the dots close together – Pattern Recognition

Faces in the Clouds – Visual Pareidolia

Am I hearing Things? – Audio Pareidolia

Hyperactive Agents – Hyperactive Agency Detection and Insertion

Drill Down – Data Mining

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Chapter 22: Critical Reasoning Perspective on Argumentation

Happily, Ever After – Rationalisations

In Two Minds – Cognitive Dissonance

It’s Only Logical – Argument in the Context of Logic

It’s Elementary Dear Watson – Deductive Reasoning

Induction Day – Inductive Reasoning

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Chapter 23: Falling for Fallacies

I'm not sure I follow – Non-Sequiturs

Wishful Thinking – Argument from Final Consequences