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An Introduction to Logic

An Introduction to Logic

Using Natural Deduction, Real Arguments, a Little History and Some Humour

by Richard T. W. Arthur
Paperback
Publication Date: 30/11/2016

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The second edition will be available in late Fall 2016.

Richard Arthur's An Introduction to Logic provides a wide-ranging introduction to logic. In lively and readable prose, Arthur presents a new approach to the study of logic, one that seeks to integrate methods of argument analysis developed in modern "informal logic" with natural deduction techniques. The dry bones of logic are given flesh by unusual attention to the history of the subject, from Pythagoras, the Stoics, and Indian Buddhist logic, through Lewis Carroll, Venn, and Boole, to Russell, Frege, and Monty Python. A previous edition of this book appeared under the title Natural Deduction. This new edition adds clarifications of the notions of explanation, validity and formal validity, a more detailed discussion of derivation strategies, and another rule of inference, Reiteration. More exercises have also been added, and others have been updated and replaced.

ISBN:
9781554813322
9781554813322
Category:
Philosophy: logic
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
30-11-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Broadview Press
Country of origin:
Canada
Edition:
2nd Edition
Dimensions (mm):
228.6x165.1x21.23mm

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