Connect Access Card for The Power of Logic

by Howard-Snyder, Frances; Howard-Snyder, Daniel; Wasserman, Ryan

• ISBN13: 9781259339288
• ISBN10: 1259339289
• Edition: 5th
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2014-07-03
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This fifth edition of The Power of Logic offers an introduction to informal logic, traditional categorical logic, and modern symbolic logic. The authors’ direct and accessible writing style, along with a wealth of engaging examples and challenging exercises, make this an ideal text for today’s logic course.

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Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Basic Concepts

Chapter 2. Identifying Arguments

Chapter 3. Logic and Language

Chapter 4. Informal Fallacies

Chapter 5. Categorical Logic: Statements

Chapter 6. Categorical Logic: Syllogisms

Chapter 7. Statement Logic: Truth Tables

Chapter 8. Statement Logic: Proofs

Chapter 9. Predicate Logic

Chapter 10. Inductive Logic

Answer Key

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Glossary/Index