Michael Boylan is Professor of Philosophy at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. He is the author of 37 books, most recently Fictive Narrative Philosophy (2019), The Origins of Ancient Greek Science (2015), and Natural Human Rights: A Theory (2014).

• Introduction Part One: Reading the Text 1. Confronting the Text 2. Critical Reading: Worldviews, Fallacies, and the Common Body of Knowledge 3. Assessing Degrees of Certainty and What it Means Part Two: Reconstructing the Text 4. Outlining Deductive Argument 5. Outlining Inductive Argument 6. Abductive Logical Outlining Part Three: Responding to the Text 7. Finding Out What You Believe 8. The Con Essay 9. The Pro Essay Appendix The Big Picture Glossary

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Michael Boylan is Professor of Philosophy at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. He is the author of 37 books, most recently Fictive Narrative Philosophy (2019), The Origins of Ancient Greek Science (2015), and Natural Human Rights: A Theory (2014).

• Introduction Part One: Reading the Text 1. Confronting the Text 2. Critical Reading: Worldviews, Fallacies, and the Common Body of Knowledge 3. Assessing Degrees of Certainty and What it Means Part Two: Reconstructing the Text 4. Outlining Deductive Argument 5. Outlining Inductive Argument 6. Abductive Logical Outlining Part Three: Responding to the Text 7. Finding Out What You Believe 8. The Con Essay 9. The Pro Essay Appendix The Big Picture Glossary

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Michael Boylan is Professor of Philosophy at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. He is the author of 37 books, most recently Fictive Narrative Philosophy (2019), The Origins of Ancient Greek Science (2015), and Natural Human Rights: A Theory (2014).

• Introduction Part One: Reading the Text 1. Confronting the Text 2. Critical Reading: Worldviews, Fallacies, and the Common Body of Knowledge 3. Assessing Degrees of Certainty and What it Means Part Two: Reconstructing the Text 4. Outlining Deductive Argument 5. Outlining Inductive Argument 6. Abductive Logical Outlining Part Three: Responding to the Text 7. Finding Out What You Believe 8. The Con Essay 9. The Pro Essay Appendix The Big Picture Glossary

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