The Languages of Logic
An Introduction to Formal Logic
2nd Edition
Published on 19. April 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-1-55786-988-3 (ISBN)
Description
With the same intellectual goals as the first edition, this innovative introductory logic textbook explores the relationship between natural language and logic, motivating the student to acquire skills and techniques of formal logic. This new and revised edition includes substantial additions which make the text even more useful to students and instructors alike. Central to these changes is an Appendix, 'How to Learn Logic', which takes the student through fourteen compact and sharply directed lessons with exercises and answers.
Reviews / Votes
"The book is truly comprehensive, detailed and lucid throughout; in fact it is one of the friendliest introductions to logic I have ever read." Nimrod Bar-Am, Tel Aviv UniversityMore details
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
644 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55786-988-3 (9781557869883)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Samuel Guttenplan
The Languages of Logic
Book
11/1986
Blackwell Publishers
€55.84
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Person
Samuel Guttenplan is Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has published widely in the areas of logic, philosophy of mind and philosophy of language and is editor of A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind (Blackwell Publishers, 1994).
Content
Preface to First Edition. Preface to Second Edition.
1. Thinking.
2. Arguments.
3. Strategy.
4. Primitive.
5. Sentential.
6. Decision.
7. Translating into Sentential.
8. The Strategy Applied and Extended.
9. Deduction.
10. Sentential and the Strategy.
11. Predicate: Part I.
12. Predicate: Part II.
13. Translating into Predicate.
14. Validity.
15. Identity, Problems and Prospects.
16. Modal.
17. Truth.
Appendix 1: How to Learn Logic.
Appendix 2: Truth Trees.
Appendix 3: Alternative Notations.
Answers to Selected Exercises.
Reading List.
Index.
1. Thinking.
2. Arguments.
3. Strategy.
4. Primitive.
5. Sentential.
6. Decision.
7. Translating into Sentential.
8. The Strategy Applied and Extended.
9. Deduction.
10. Sentential and the Strategy.
11. Predicate: Part I.
12. Predicate: Part II.
13. Translating into Predicate.
14. Validity.
15. Identity, Problems and Prospects.
16. Modal.
17. Truth.
Appendix 1: How to Learn Logic.
Appendix 2: Truth Trees.
Appendix 3: Alternative Notations.
Answers to Selected Exercises.
Reading List.
Index.