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020 _a9781119029359 (pbk.)
041 _aEnglish
042 _apcc
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_bSMI
100 1 _aSmith, Jonathan C.,
240 1 0 _aPseudoscience and extraordinary claims of the paranormal
245 1 0 _aCritical thinking :
_bpseudoscience and the paranormal /
_cJonathan C. Smith.
250 _aSecond Edition.
260 _aHoboken, NJ :
_bJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
_c2018. ©2018
300 _aix, 307 pages :
_bcolored illustrations ;
_c23 cm
500 _aRev. ed. of: Pseudoscience and extraordinary claims of the paranormal : a critical thinker's toolkit. 2010.
505 _tPart I: Introduction 1. Critical Thinking: Your Survival Kit 2. The Paranormal Spectrum 3. What's the Harm? Why study these things?
_tPart II: The Critical Thinker's Toolkit 4. Sources 5. Logic (Bonus: The Big Four Informal Logical Fallacies) 6. Logic and Language: Fallacies of Ambiguity 7. Science
_tPart III: Alternative Explanations 8. Oddities of Nature and the World of Numbers 9. Perceptual Error and Trickery 10. Memory Errors 11. The Placebo Effect 12. Sensory Phenomena, Hallucinations, and Psychiatric Conditions
_tPart IV: Paranormal Challenges 13. Claims of Extraordinary Cures 14. From the Paranormal Sampler: Four Claims of Consequence
650 0 _aParapsychology.
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_cBOOKS
100 1 _eauthor.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 271-294) and index.
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aSmith, Jonathan C., author.
_tCritical thinking
_bSecond Edition.
_dHoboken : Wiley, 2017
_z9781119029489
_w(DLC) 2017006793
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