Richard Arthur's Natural Deduction provides a wide-ranging introduction to logic. In lively and readable prose, Arthur presents a new approach to the study of logic, one that seeks to integrate methods of argument analysis developed in modern ""informal logic"" with natural deduction techniques. The dry bones of logic are given flesh by unusual attention to the history of the subject, from Pythagoras, the Stoics, and Indian Buddhist logic, through Lewis Carroll, Venn, and Boole, to Russell, Frege, and Monty Python. In this new edition, more exercises have been added and others have been updated and replaced. Also included are some clarifications of the notions of explanation, validity and formal validity, a more detailed discussion of derivation strategies, and another rule of inference, Reiteration.
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Provides a wide-ranging introduction to logic. In lively and readable prose, Arthur presents a new approach to the study of logic, one that seeks to integrate methods of argument analysis developed in modern "informal logic" with natural deduction techniques. In this new edition, more exercises have been added and others have been updated and replaced.
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- PART I: ARGUMENTS
- Chapter 1: Arguments
- Chapter 2: ValidityPART II: STATEMENT LOGIC
- Chapter 3: Statements and Conditionals
- Chapter 4: Negation
- Chapter 5: Conjunction
- Chapter 6: Disjunction
- Chapter 7: Conditional Proof
- Chapter 8: Biconditionals
- Chapter 9: Dilemmas
- Chapter 10: Reductio Arguments
- Chapter 11: Review and Consolidation
- Chapter 12: SL as a Formal System
- Chapter 13: Truth Tables
- Chapter 14: Truth Trees for SLPART III: PREDICATE LOGIC
- Chapter 15: Syllogistic Logic
- Chapter 16: Universal Quantification
- Chapter 17: Existential Quantification
- Chapter 18: Advanced Class Logic
- Chapter 19: Asyllogistic Arguments
- Chapter 20: Relational Logic
- Chapter 21: Logic with Identity
- Chapter 22: Relational Arguments
- Chapter 23: Truth Trees for PL
- Chapter 24: Other Logics
- Appendix 1: The Paradoxes of Material Implication
- Appendix 2: A Little History: Consequentiae
- Appendix 3: Logic Diagrams
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ISBN
9781554813322
Publisert
2016-11-30
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Broadview Press Ltd
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229 mm
Bredde
165 mm
Aldersnivå
06, P
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
440
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