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"Professor Bennett entertains as she instructs," writes Publishers Weekly about the penetrating yet practical Logic Made Easy. This brilliantly clear and gratifyingly concise treatment of the ancient Greek discipline identifies the illogical in everything from street signs to tax forms. Complete with puzzles you can try yourself, Logic Made Easy invites readers to identify and ultimately remedy logical slips in everyday life. Designed with dozens of visual examples, the book guides you through those hair-raising times when logic is at odds with our language and common sense. Logic Made Easy is indeed one of those rare books that will actually make you a more logical human being.

Introduction: Logic Is Rare	p. 11
The mistakes we make	p. 13
Logic should be everywhere	p. 18
How history can help	p. 19
Proof	p. 29
Consistency is all I ask	p. 29
Proof by contradiction	p. 33
Disproof	p. 36
All	p. 40
All S are P	p. 42
Vice Versa	p. 42
Familiarity-help or hindrance?	p. 48
Clarity or brevity?	p. 50
A Not Tangles Everything Up	p. 53
The trouble with not	p. 54
Scope of the negative	p. 58
A and E propositions	p. 59
When no means yes-the "negative pregnant" and double negative	p. 61
Some Is Part or All of All	p. 64
Some is existential	p. 65
Some are; some are not	p. 68
A, E, I, and O	p. 70
Syllogisms	p. 73
Sorites, or heap	p. 85
Atmosphere of the "sillygism"	p. 88
Knowledge interferes with logic	p. 89
Truth interferes with logic	p. 90
Terminology made simple	p. 91
When Things Are IFfy	p. 96
The converse of the conditional	p. 108
Causation	p. 112
The contrapositive conditional	p. 115
Syllogisms Involving IF, AND, and OR	p. 118
Disjunction, an "or" statement	p. 119
Conjunction, an "and" statement	p. 121
Hypothetical syllogisms	p. 124
Common fallacies	p. 130
Diagramming conditional syllogisms	p. 134
Series Syllogisms	p. 137
Symbols That Express Our Thoughts	p. 145
Leibniz's dream comes true: Boolean logic	p. 151
Logic Machines and Truth Tables	p. 160
Reasoning machines	p. 160
Truth tables	p. 165
True, false, and maybe	p. 168
Fuzzy Logic, Fallacies, and Paradoxes	p. 173
Shaggy logic	p. 173
Fallacies	p. 177
Paradoxes	p. 187
Common Logic and Language	p. 192
Thinking Well-Together	p. 202
Theories of reasoning	p. 210
Notes	p. 219
References	p. 233
Acknowledgments	p. 243
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