The Languages of Logic An Introduction to Formal Logic

by Guttenplan, Samuel

• ISBN13: 9781557869883
• ISBN10: 155786988X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-28
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	vi	(1)
Preface to the First Edition	vii
1 Thinking	1	(13)
2 Arguments	14	(14)
3 Strategy	28	(12)
4 Primitive	40	(20)
5 Sentential	60	(24)
6 Decision	84	(14)
7 Translating into Sentential	98	(18)
8 The Strategy Applied and Extended	116	(10)
9 Deduction	126	(21)
10 Sentential and the Strategy	147	(9)
11 Predicate: Part I	156	(24)
12 Predicate: Part II	180	(26)
13 Translating into Predicate	206	(26)
14 Validity	232	(28)
15 Identity, Problems and Prospects	260	(15)
16 Modal	275	(13)
17 Truth	288	(21)
Appendix 1: How to Learn Logic	309	(82)
Answers to Exercises Marked* in Lessons 1-14	379	(12)
Appendix 2: Truth Trees	391	(14)
Appendix 3: Alternative Notations	405	(19)
Answers to Exercises Marked* in Chapters 1-17	408	(16)
Reading List	424	(2)
Index	426