Simple Logic
- ISBN13:
9780195155020
- ISBN10:
0195155025
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 1998-07-24
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Written by an accomplished teacher, scholar, and writer, Simple Logic is unique in its sensitivity to today's student audience; it provides philosophical writing samples that are interesting and relevant to students' lives. Daniel Bonevac's clear writing style and careful presentation helpstudents to easily understand key concepts, terms, and examples. He features a multitude of stimulating examples drawn from literary texts and contemporary culture, from figures as varied as Voltaire, Confucius, and Bart Simpson. Simple Logic succeeds in conveying the standard topics in introductory logic with easy-to-understand explanations of rules and methods, while concentrating the discussion on fundamental topics taught by the majority of logic instructors.
Table of Contents
| Logic and Language | |
| Reasoning | |
| Premises and Conclusions | |
| Recognizing Arguments | |
| Extended Arguments | |
| Validity and Strength | |
| Implication and Equivalence | |
| Form and Invalidity | |
| Language | |
| Reason and Emotion | |
| Goals of Definition | |
| Means of Definition | |
| Criteria for Definitions | |
| Informal Fallacies | |
| Fallacies of Evidence | |
| Fallacies of Relevance: Credibility | |
| Fallacies of Relevance: Confusion | |
| Fallacies of Relevance: Manipulation | |
| Inductive Fallacies | |
| Fallacies of Clarity | |
| Aristotelian Logic | |
| Categorical Propositions | |
| Kinds of Categorical Proposition | |
| Categorical Propositions in Natural Language | |
| Diagramming Categorical Propositions | |
| Immediate Inference | |
| The Aristotelian Square of Opposition | |
| The Modern Square of Opposition | |
| Syllogisms | |
| Standard Form | |
| Venn Diagrams | |
| Distribution | |
| Rules for Validity | |
| Reduction | |
| Symbolic Logic | |
| Propositional Logic | |
| Connectives | |
| Truth Functions | |
| Symbolization | |
| A Symbolic Language | |
| Logical Properties of Statements | |
| Truth Tables for Statements | |
| Truth Tables for Symbolic Arguments | |
| Semantic Tableaux | |
| Motivation | |
| Tableaux | |
| Negation, Conjunction, and Disjunction | |
| Policies | |
| The Conditional and Biconditional | |
| Other Applications | |
| Proof | |
| Rules and Proofs | |
| Rules of Implication I: Conjunctions and Conditionals | |
| Rules of Implication II: Disjunctions | |
| Rules of Replacement: Connectives | |
| Rules of Replacement: Algebra | |
| Categorical Proofs | |
| Indirect Proofs | |
| Predicate Logic | |
| Quantifiers | |
| Categorical Statement Forms | |
| Symbolization | |
| Quantified Tableaux | |
| Quantified Proofs | |
| Universal Generalization | |
| Induction | |
| Generalizations and Analogies | |
| Inductive Strength | |
| Enumeration | |
| Statistical Generalizations | |
| Analogies | |
| Causes | |
| Kinds of Causes | |
| Agreement and Difference | |
| Residues and Concomitant Variation | |
| Explanations | |
| Generalizations and Laws | |
| The Hypothetico-Deductive Method | |
| Confirmation and Auxiliary Assumptions | |
| Evaluating Explanations | |
| Answers to Selected Problems | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
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