Introduction to logic
By: Copi, Irving M
| Cohen, Carl | McMahon, Kenneth
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: United Kingdom -- Routledge -- 2014Description: xxii, 627pISBN: 9781292024820Subject(s): Philosophical logicDDC classification: 160 COP/I Summary: Introduction to Logic is a proven textbook that has been honed through the collaborative efforts of many scholars over the last five decades. Its scrupulous attention to detail and precision in exposition and explanation is matched by the greatest accuracy in all associated detail. In addition, it continues to capture student interest through its personalized human setting and current examples. The 14th Edition of Introduction to Logic, written by Copi, Cohen & McMahon, is dedicated to the many thousands of students and their teachers - at hundreds of universities in the United States and around the world - who have used its fundamental methods and techniques of correct reasoning in their everyday lives.
*Basic logical concepts
*Analyzing arguments
*Language and definitions
*Fallacies
*Categorical propositions
*Categorical syllogisms
*Syllogisms in ordinary language
*Symbolic logic
*Methods of deduction
*Quantification theory
*Analogical reasoning
*Causal reasoning
*Science and hypothesis
*Probability
*Appendix: Graduate-level admission tests
*Solutions to selected exercises
Introduction to Logic is a proven textbook that has been honed through the collaborative efforts of many scholars over the last five decades. Its scrupulous attention to detail and precision in exposition and explanation is matched by the greatest accuracy in all associated detail. In addition, it continues to capture student interest through its personalized human setting and current examples. The 14th Edition of Introduction to Logic, written by Copi, Cohen & McMahon, is dedicated to the many thousands of students and their teachers - at hundreds of universities in the United States and around the world - who have used its fundamental methods and techniques of correct reasoning in their everyday lives.