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• An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments (prepublication version, 2013), by Ali Almossawi, illust. by Alejandro Giraldo (illustrated HTML at bookofbadarguments.com)
• A Fortiori Logic: Innovations, History and Assessments (first edition; Geneva: The author, 2013), by Avi Sion (HTML at thelogician.net)
• The Place of Reason in Education (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1967), by Bertram Bandman (PDF at Ohio State)
• Future Logic: Categorical and Conditional Deduction and Induction of the Natural, Temporal, Extensional, and Logical Modalities. (1996), by Avi Sion (frame-dependent HTML at thelogician.net)
• Plato's Euthydemus: Analysis of What Is and Is Not Philosophy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Thomas H. Chance (HTML at UC Press)
• The Technique of Controversy: Principles of Dynamic Logic (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1928), by Boris B. Bogoslovsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art of Logical Thinking: or, The Laws of Reasoning (Chicago: The Progress Company, 1909), by William Walker Atkinson
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• Of the Conduct of the Understanding, by John Locke (HTML at Columbia)
• The Limits of Mathematics, by Gregory J. Chaitin (illustrated HTML at Maine)
• An account of the reasoning process, (Washington, Gideon & co., printers, 1850), by Louis Mackall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The psychology of reasoning, based on experimental researches in hypnotism; (Chicago, The Open court publishing company; [etc., etc.], 1899), by Alfred Binet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The psychology of reasoning, (New York and London, D. Appleton and company, 1910), by W. B. Pillsbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Easy lessons on reasoning. (Toronto, Copp, Clark & co., 1872), by Richard Whately (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conduct of the understanding in the search of truth. (Edinburgh, Printed for W. Creech; [etc., etc.], 1807), by John Locke (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. (Boston, Water street bookstore, 1833), by John Locke (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the conduct of the understanding, (Hartford, S. Andrus & son, 1851), by John Locke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The thinking process (Ypsilanti, Mich., c1910), by Nathan A. Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Logic for the million; a familiar exposition of the art of reasoning, (London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1857), by James William Gilbart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks on mathematical or demonstrative reasoning; its connexion with logic; and its application to science, physical and metaphysical, with reference to some recent publications. (London, J. Green, 1837), by Edward Tagart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elementary philosophy. (Philadelphia, Porter and Coates, 1875), by James Mark Willcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The theory of reasoning. (London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851), by Samuel Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to reason [electronic resource] : a lecture delivered before the Young Men's Association of Zion Church, and published at their request, 2nd November, 1871 / (Montreal : F. Grafton, 1871), by Charles Chapman and Young Men's Association of Zion Church (Montreal) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Easy lessons on reasoning [electronic resource]. (Toronto : Copp, Clark, 1872), by Richard Whateley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The principles of argument [electronic resource] / (Toronto : Canada Law Book, 1910), by Edwin Bell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Conduct of the understanding. (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1882), by John Locke and Thomas Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of debate, (New York, H. Holt and Company, 1904), by Raymond Macdonald Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Easy lessons on reasoning. (Boston, J. Munroe and Company, 1845), by Richard Whately (page images at HathiTrust)
• Keep your wits, (New York, Whittlesey House, [c1935]), by David Seabury (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the conduct of the understanding, (Hartford, Andrus, 1849), by John Locke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The psychology of reasoning, based on experimental researches in hypnotism; (Chicago, The Open courtpublishing company, 1912), by Alfred Binet, trans. by Adam Gowans Whyte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Infallible logic : a visible and automatic system of reasoning. (Chicago : Dominion Co., 1897), by Thomas De Riemer Hawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The role of logical form in propositions about existence, (Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press, 1931), by Stanley Bonneau Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of correct thinking / (Minneapolis : Burgess, 1936), by Charles Henry Patterson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An experiment in the development of critical thinking, (New York, Teachers college, Columbia university, 1941), by Edward M. Glaser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. (Boston : Timothy Bedlington, 1828), by John Locke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les principes du raisonement exposez en deux logiques nouvéles. : Avec des remarques sur les logiques qui ont eu le plus de réputation de notre temps (Paris : Chez Briasson, 1726), by Claude Buffier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The reasoning ability of children of the fourth, fith, and sixth school grades, (New York city : Teachers college, Columbia university, 1910), by Frederick Gordon Bonser (page images at HathiTrust)
• The use of words in reasoning [microform], (London, A. & C. Black, 1901), by Alfred Sidgwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the conduct of the understanding / (Boston : Timothy Bedlington, 1831), by John Locke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discourse on the method of rightly conducting the reason, and seeking truth in the sciences / (Chicago : Open Court Publishing Co. ; London : K. Paul, Trench, Tru bner, 1907), by Rene Descartes and John Veitch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Learning by inductive inference / (Urbana, Illinois : Dept. of Computer Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1974), by Ryszard Stanisaw Michalski (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of the impact of the verbal environment in mathematics classrooms on seventh grade students' logical abilities / ([Washington] : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, Bureau of Research, 1972), by John William Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)
• The psychology of reasoning : based on experimental researches in hypnotism / (Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co., 1907), by Alfred Binet and Adam Gowans Whyte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Locke's conduct of the understanding / (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1901), by John Locke and Thomas Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nonmathematical applications in everyday life involving types of reasoning considered in plane geometry. (Albany, 1947), by University of the State of New York. Division of Secondary Education (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Platonis Parmenides : cum quatuor libris prolegomenorum et commentario perpetuo / (Lipsiae [Leipzig] : Sumptibus Im. Tr. Woelleri, 1848), by Plato, ca. 410-485 Proclus, and Gottfried Stallbaum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Developing the ability to assess the results of thinking. ([Urbana] Office of High School Visitor, 1949), by Fred Carlisle Hood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Logic and argument, (New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1907), by James H. Hyslop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analystes et esprits synthétiques. (Paris, Alcan, 1902), by Fr. Paulhan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Picture Logic. (London, Longmans, Green, 1887), by Alfred James Swinburne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of false reasoning exemplified : in some extracts from the report of Sir Robert Peel's speech in "The Times" paper of July 7th, 1849. (London : Ollivier, 1850), by James Taylor and Robert Peel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lógica viva (adaptación práctica y didáctica) (Montevideo, Talleres gráficos A. Barreiro y Ramos, 1920), by Carlos Vaz Ferreira (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to argue successfully; an exposition of the principles and methods of argument. (New York, Dutton, 1914 [1913]), by William Macpherson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the conduct of the understanding / (Hartford : S. Andrus, 1851), by John Locke and Francis Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the conduct of the understanding / (Hartford : S. Andrus, 1849), by John Locke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nel regno del conoscere e del ragionare. (Milano, Bocca, 1919), by Ettore Galli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How children learn to think / ([Washington] U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1958]), by Paul Everett Blackwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Of the conduct of the understanding / (London : Bell and Daldy, 1859), by John Locke and Bolton Corney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studien zur Terminologie und Technik der rhetorischen Beweisführung bei lateinischen Schriftstellern. (Uppsala, Almqvist & Wiksells bogtr. a.b., 1913), by Arne Holmberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The effect of changed material on ability to do formal sylogistic reasoning, (New York, 1928), by Minna Cheves Wilkins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some thoughts on the conduct of the understanding in the search of truth ... ([London], 1741), by John Locke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks on mathematical or demonstrative reasoning; its connexion with logic; and its application to science, physical and metaphysical, with reference to some recent publications. (London, J. Green, 1837), by Edward Tagart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psicologia del ragionamento. (Bologna : N. Zanichelli, [1920?]), by Eugenio Rignano (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Scientific method in schools; a suggestion, (Cambridge, The University press, 1916), by W. H. S. Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An analysis of the methods used in solving a rational learning problem. (Nashville, Tenn., George Peabody college for teachers, 1936), by Edgar Marion Cook (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The art of logical thinking; or, The laws of reasoning. (Chicago, The Progress Company, 1909), by William Walker Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Logic for the million : a familiar exposition of the art of reasoning / (London : Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1851), by James William Gilbart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Easy lessons on reasoning (London, J.W. Parker, 1847), by Richard Whately (page images at HathiTrust)
• Easy lessons on reasoning. (Boston, and Cambridge, J. Munroe and company, 1857), by Richard Whately (page images at HathiTrust)
• Logic for the million; a familiar exposition of the art reasoning, with an appendix on the philosophy of language. (London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1857), by James William Gilbart (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the conduct of the understanding / (Boston : Timothly Bedlington, 1828), by John Locke (page images at HathiTrust)
• An experimental investigation of young children's ideas of causality / (Washington, D.C. : The Catholic university of America press, 1943), by Bernardina McAndrew (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Phase II final report on an intelligent tutoring system for teaching battlefield command reasoning skills / (Alexandria, VA : U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Mar. 2004), by Eric A. Domeshek and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Armored Forces Research Unit (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the conduct of the understanding / (Boston, Mass. : C. D. Strong, 1931), by John Locke (page images at HathiTrust)
• A delineation of the primary principles of reasoning. (London, R. Bentley, 1856), by Robert Boyd Kidd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Easy lessons on reasoning. (Boston, J. Munroe and Company, 1852), by Richard Whately (page images at HathiTrust)
• A course in argumentative writing / (New York : Holt, 1901, c1899), by Gertrude Buck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Should the army canteen be restored? (New York, For the Department of English of Columbia university, 1910), by Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve and Alice Haskell (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay towards the improvement of reason; in the pursuit of learning and conduct of life. (London, T. Parkhurst, 1707), by Joshua Oldfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Formen der Argumentation bei den vorsokratischen Philosophen ... (Würzburg, C.J. Beckers Buchdr., 1906), by Adolf Baumann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Logic for the million : a familiar exposition of the art of reasoning : with an appendix on the philosophy of language / (London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1857), by James William Gilbart (page images at HathiTrust)
• A course in argumentative writing / (New York : Holt, 1899), by Gertrude Buck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über den richtigen Gebrauch des Verstandes ... (Leipzig, Meiner, 1920), by John Locke and Otto. trl Martin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Better thinking for better living. ([Ann Arbor, Edwards Bros., c1948]), by Gordon S. Fulcher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Introductio ad philosophiam Aulicam ; seu, Linea︠e︡ prima︠e︡ libri de prudentia cogitandi et ratiocinandi, ubi oftenditur media inter pra︠e︡judicia Cartesianorum, & ineptias Peripateticorum, veritatem inveniendi via. (Hala︠e︡, 1702), by Christian Thomasius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Logique judiciaire / (Paris : Joubert, 1841), by Hortensius de Corbeau Saint-Albin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pure logic and other minor works, (London, New York, Macmillan, 1890), by William Stanley Jevons, ed. by Harriet A. Jevons and Robert Adamson (page images at HathiTrust)
• La psychologie du raisonnement; (Paris, F. Alcan, 1886), by Alfred Binet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Picture logic; an attempt to popularise the science of reasoning by the combination of humorous pictures with examples of reasoning taken from daily life. (London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1881), by Alfred James Swinburne and George Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thesis philosophica de definitione. (Parisiis, ex typis Lebègue, 1833), by Pierre Benjamin Lafaye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters on reasoning, (London, Watts & co., 1902), by J. M. Robertson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How we learn; a short primer of scientific method for boys, (Cambridge : The University press, 1916), by W. H. S. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• The thinking process (Ypsilanti, Mich., c1910), by Nathan A. Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The basis of belief, (New York, Thomas Y. Crowell company, [c1930]), by W. G. Ballantine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters on reasoning, (London, Watts & co., 1905), by J. M. Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to argue and win, (New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls company, [1910.]), by Grenville Kleiser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der eleatische satz vom widerspruch. (Kjøbenhavn [etc.] Gyldendal, 1924), by Svend Ranulf (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essai de logique judiciaire. : Ouvrage qui doit servir d'appréciation, et sur quelques points, d'antirrhatique [!] de la Logique judiciaire publiée à Paris, en 1841, par m. Hortensius de St.-Albin ... / (Montréal : De Montigny & cie, 1853), by Maximilien Bibaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of practical thinking; an informal discussion for intelligent layman, with examples taken mainly from the field of business, (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1940), by Richard Weil (page images at HathiTrust)
• Logic and argument. (New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1899), by James H. Hyslop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Logic for the million; a familiar exposition of the art of reasoning, (London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1857), by James William Gilbart (page images at HathiTrust)
• A course in argumentative writing / (New York : Holt, 1901, c1899), by Gertrude Buck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essentials of argument, (New York, H. Holt and company, 1916), by Arthur Parker Stone and Stewart Lee Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Infallible logic. A visible and automatic system of reasoning, (Lansing, Mich., R. Smith printing company, 1896), by Thomas De Riemer Hawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origin of thought / (London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1901), by D Nickerson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les idées, leurs rapports et le jugement de l'homme. (Genève, L.S. Olschki, 1926), by Leo Jordan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• What makes up my mind on international questions, five outlines for leaders and members of discussion groups (New York, Association press [etc.], 1926) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das urteilende und schiessende Denken in kausaler Behandlung / (Leipzig : Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1926), by Gustav Störring (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The psychology of reasoning, an experimental study, ([Baltimore, 1926]), by Miriam Frances Dunn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exercises in reasoning / ([Chicago : The author, c1940]), by Joseph Antonius Nyberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legal reasoning and briefing; logic applied to the preparation, trial and appeal of cases, with illustrative briefs and forms, (Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [c1917]), by Jesse Franklin Brumbaugh and George W. Weir (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur kritischen Grundlegung der Psychologie, (Berlin, Reuther & Reichard, 1920), by Walter Blumenfeld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Common sense and its cultivation, (London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd.; New York, E.P. Dutton & co., 1926), by E. Hanbury Hankin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• al-Ta'līqāt [fī al-ḥikmah]., by Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology. Manuscript. Ivanow 192 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's interpretations of cartoons; a study of the nature and development of the ability to interpret symbolic drawings, (New York city, Teachers college, Columbia university, 1930), by Laurance F. Shaffer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to think straight. (Paterson, N.J., Littlefield, Adams, 1963), by James D. Weinland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le jugement et le raisonnement chez l'enfant, (Neuchâtel, Paris, Delachaux & Niestlé s.a., [1924]), by Jean Piaget (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The art of debate, (New York, H. Holt and company, 1900), by Raymond Macdonald Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters on reasoning / (London : Watts, 1905), by J. M. Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prodromus, or, An inquiry into the first principles of reasoning : including an analysis of the human mind. (London : W. H. Allen, 1839), by Graves Champney Haughton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The use of words in reasoning (London : A. & C. Black, 1901), by Alfred Sidgwick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The conduct of the understanding / (New York : Alden, 1891), by John Locke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Implication and linear inference, (London, Macmillan and co., limited, 1920), by Bernard Bosanquet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The theory of reasoning. (London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852), by Samuel Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)

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