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You've got to be kidding! : how jokes can help you think / John Capps and Donald Capps.

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TextPublication details: Malden MA ; Chichester UK : Wiley Blackwell , 2009.Description: xi, 124 pISBN:

9781405196642 (pbk.) :

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Summary: Critical or rational thinking means the ability to pursue an idea logically with defensible reasons for what is stated, whereas being irrational means using faulty reasoning. Jokes often depend for their impact on logical fallacies and thus can be used to explain the process of critical thinking.

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Critical or rational thinking means the ability to pursue an idea logically with defensible reasons for what is stated, whereas being irrational means using faulty reasoning. Jokes often depend for their impact on logical fallacies and thus can be used to explain the process of critical thinking.

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