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An introduction to essentisl principles of reasoning and critical thinking designed to introduce students to the analysis of concepts, to enhance their ability to evaluate various forms of reasoning and to examine their ability to evaluate various forms of reasoning and to examine critically beliefs, conventions and theories, and to develop sound arguments, fair argumentation, validity. Topics to include fundamentals of logic and analysis, definition, uses of language, conceptual analysis, logical fallacies, deduction and induction, analytic and synthetic propositions, scientific method and explanation, distinction.