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This exciting new Canadian text covers the fundamentals of critical thinking, reasoning, argumentation, logic, and argumentative essay-writing. It also includes comprehensive coverage of inference to the best explanation, extensive discussion of scientific reasoning, and provides a thorough discussion of credibility and the evaluation of evidence, as well as of the psychological and social factors that can impede critical thinking. This new edition incorporates numerous references to Canadian persons, places, political events, and debates over issues that matter to Canadians, allowing students to place important concepts in a familiar context while at the same time maintaining the lively, informal tone that have made the original text so popular.