Essentials of Symbolic Logic - Third Edition
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Essentials of Symbolic Logic - Third Edition

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Essentials of Symbolic Logic - Third Edition

About this book

The third edition of Essentials of Symbolic Logic is a concise and clearly written introduction to the topic. Based on years of use in colleges and universities, the book provides an accessible and thorough grounding in sentence logic and predicate logic. While technical jargon is kept to a minimum, all necessary logical concepts and vocabulary are explained clearly. A standard system of natural deduction is developed, and readers are given suggestions for developing strategies for creating derivations (proofs) in this system.

An instructor's website is available with solutions to all the exercises in the text, including the many new exercises which have been added to this new edition.

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Information

Publisher
Broadview Press
Year
2008
eBook ISBN
9781770484955
Edition
3
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Logic in Philosophy
CHAPTER 
ONE 
INTRODUCTION 
§1.1: 
THE 
AIMS 
OF 
THIS 
BOOK 
... 
God 
has 
not 
been 
so 
sparing 
to 
men 
to 
make 
them 
barely 
two-legged 
creatures, 
and 
left 
it 
to 
Aristotle 
to 
make 
them 
rational... 
God 
has 
been 
more 
bountiful 
to 
mankind 
than 
so. 
He 
has 
given 
them 
a 
mind 
that 
can 
reason, 
without 
being 
instructed... 
John 
Locke,
An 
Essay 
Concerning 
Human 
Understanding, 
Bk. 
IV, 
Ch. 
XVII. 
This 
quotation 
reflects 
Locke's 
belief 
that 
one 
can 
reason 
logically 
without 
having 
studied 
the 
subject 
called 
'logic'. 
I 
share 
Locke's 
view. 
The 
study 
of 
logic, 
of 
course, 
is 
far 
different 
now 
from 
what 
it 
was 
in 
Locke's 
time; 
the 
student 
of 
today 
is 
likely 
to 
spend 
much 
more 
time 
on 
symbolic 
logic 
than 
on 
the 
logic 
of 
Aristotle. 
Notwithstanding 
the 
great 
differences 
between 
Aristotelian 
logic 
and 
contemporary 
symbolic 
logic, 
the 
view 
that 
one 
should 
learn 
logic 
in 
order 
to 
reason 
properly 
is 
still 
prevalent. 
I 
do 
not 
deny 
that 
the 
study 
of 
logic 
can 
-
and 
often 
does 
- 
sharpen 
one's 
ability 
to 
reason; 
what 
I 
deny 
is 
that 
this 
is 
the 
only, 
or 
even 
the 
primary, 
reason 
for 
studying 
the 
subject. 
1 

Table of contents

  1. Companion Website
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Contents
  4. Symbols
  5. Greek Letters
  6. Chapter One: Introduction
  7. Chapter Two: Sentence Logic
  8. Chapter Three: Derivations in Sentence Logic
  9. Chapter Four: Predicate Logic
  10. Chapter Five: Derivations in Predicate Logic
  11. Chapter Six: Miscellaneous Matters
  12. Index: Technical Terms