In specific sense, students will be introduced to methods and requirements of establishing logical and empirical truths. This is to make critical analysis or reasoning a component of the practical lives of students and a significant means for the solution of problems generated in various academic disciplines. The following topics, among others, will be treated by the end of the Semester: thoughts as objects of scrutiny, types of definition, contrasting types of discourse, the normative and the empirical, the difference between induction and deduction, further discussion of induction (in the sciences and everyday life), polemical tricks and rhetorical ploys (informal fallacies).