A Concise Introduction to Logic
A Concise Introduction to Logic is an introduction to formal logic suitable for undergraduates taking a general education course in logic or critical thinking, and is accessible and useful to any interested in gaining a basic understanding of logic. This text takes the unique approach of teaching lo...
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| Language: | English |
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Open SUNY
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Propositional Logic
- 1. Developing a Precise Language
- 2. “If…then….” and “It is not the case that….”
- 3. Good Arguments
- 4. Proofs
- 5. “And”
- 6. Conditional Derivations
- 7. “Or”
- 8. Reductio ad Absurdum
- 9. “… if and only if …”, Using Theorems
- 10. Summary of Propositional Logic
- Part II: First Order Logic
- 11. Names and predicates
- 12. “All” and “some”
- 13. Reasoning with quantifiers
- 14. Universal derivation
- 15. Relations, functions, identity, and multiple quantifiers
- 16. Summary of first order logic
- Part III: A Look Forward
- 17. Some advanced topics in logic