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Background | |
Why Study Logic | |
Sentences, Truth-Values, and Arguments | |
Deductive Validity and Soundness | |
Inductive Arguments | |
Logical Consistency, Truth, Falsity, and Equivalence | |
Special Cases of Validity | |
Sentential Logic: Symbolization and Syntax | |
Symbolization and Truth-Functional Connectives | |
Complex Symbolizations | |
Non-Truth-Functional Connectives | |
The Syntax of SL | |
Sentential Logic: Semantics | |
Truth-Value Assignments and Truth-Tables for Sentences | |
Truth-Functional Truth, Falsity, and Indeterminacy | |
Truth-Functional Equivalence | |
Truth-Functional Consistency | |
Truth-Functional Entailment and Truth-Functional Validity | |
Truth-Functional Properties and Truth-Functional Consistency | |
Sentential Logic: Truth-Trees | |
The Truth-Tree Method | |
Truth-Tree Rules for Sentences Containing 'tilde', 'wedge', and 'ampersand' | |
Rules for Sentences Containing 'horseshoe' and 'triple bar' | |
More Complex Truth-Trees | |
Using Truth-Trees to Test for Truth-Functional Truth, Falsity, and Indeterminacy | |
Truth-Functional Equivalence | |
Truth-Functional Entailment and Truth-Functional Validity | |
Sentential Logic: Derivations | |
The Derivation System SD | |
Applying the Derivation Rules of SD | |
Basic Concepts of SD | |
Strategies for Constructing Derivations in SD | |
The Derivation System SD+ | |
Sentential Logic: Metatheory | |
Mathematical Induction | |
Truth-Functional Completeness | |
The Soundness of SD and SD+ | |
The Completeness of SD and SD+ | |
Predicate Logic: Symbolization and Syntax | |
The Limitations of SL | |
Predicates, Individual Constants, and Quantity Terms of English | |
Introduction to PL | |
Quantifiers Introduced | |
The Formal Syntax of PL | |
A-, E-, I-, and O-Sentences | |
Symbolization Techniques | |
Multiple Quantifiers with Overlapping Scope | |
Identity, Definite Descriptions, and Properties of Relations, and Functions | |
Predicate Logic: Semantics | |
Informal Semantics for PL | |
Quantificational Truth, Falsehood, and Indeterminacy | |
Quantificational Equivalence and Consistency | |
Quantification Entailment and Validity | |
Truth-Functional Expansions | |
Semantics for Predicate Logic with Identity and Functors | |
Formal Semantics of PL and PLE | |
Predicate Logic: Truth-Trees | |
Expanding the Rules for Truth-Trees | |
Truth-Trees and Quantificational Consistency | |
Truth-Trees and Other Semantic Properties | |
Trees for PLE | |
Fine-Tuning the Tree Method | |
Predicate Logic: Derivations | |
The Derivation System PD | |
Applying the Derivation Rules of PD | |
Basic Concepts of PD | |
Strategies for Constructing Derivations in PD | |
The Derivation System PD+ | |
The Derivation System PDE | |
Predicate Logic: Metatheory | |
Semantic Preliminaries for PD | |
Semantic Preliminaries for PLE | |
The Soundness of PD, PD+, and PDE | |
The Completeness of PD, PD+, and PDE | |
The Soundness of the Tree Method | |
The Completeness of the Tree Method Selected Bibliography Index | |
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