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 Perfect-o! October 10, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This came an about the same time they had said it would come in. Came in mint condition and has thus far served to help better my grade in my Logics class.
 Logic. October 3, 2008
It is indeed a concise book. Only complaint I have is it does not contain the answers to all questions, but only one of every three.
Otherwise, very well written textbook.
Thank you for Refund Help May 16, 2008
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I was in the process of ordering a book for my college class and learned after ordering the book, that is was the wrong edition. I quickly emailed this company and they were quick to respond and refund my order. I want to say thank you for the quickness and helpfulness. I rate this company five stars.
It contains what you need to know to be a logical person April 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Logic is something that all humans believe they practice, but few actually do it with regularity. Sometimes it is inconvenient to be logical, but the vast majority of the time it is due to a failure to understand what the rules of logic are. This book, designed to be a text for a college level course in logic, contains what you will need to be a logical person. The material is for a logic course taught more in a philosophical vein rather than in the mathematical format.
The chapter headings are:
*) Basic concepts
*) Language: Meaning and definition
*) Informal fallacies
*) Categorical propositions
*) Categorical syllogisms
*) Propositional logic
*) Natural deduction in propositional logic
*) Predicate logic
*) Induction
The exposition is conversational in tone and verbal in presentation. There are few formulas in the early chapters and there are a large number of problems at the ends of the sections. Most of the problems are textual in nature, and solutions to many of them are included in an appendix.
This book is a sound choice as a textbook in a course in basic logic; I found some of the examples used in the later chapters of value when talking about predicates in my course on the theory of computation.
 Fairly understandable, but the concepts are pointlesss December 27, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
...at least that's my own opinion. I still don't understand the point of turning sentences into tilde's, horseshoes and triple bars in order to figure out if it makes sense! But the book is easy enough to read. And the CD Rom is extremely helpful in the process. I got an A in the class, and mostly depended on the CS Rom.
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