First Logic (Paperback, Second Edition)

First Logic is an introduction to the study of logic. Understanding the concepts of validity, invalidity, and acceptability, unacceptability of arguments is the primary focus of this book. The first chapter introduces the reader to some of the basic concepts, such as validity, soundness, and acceptability. Chapters two and three are devoted to Aristotelian logic, including the traditional square of opposition and Venn diagrams for sentences and arguments. Chapter four is a treatment of a number of important informal fallacies of reasoning (appeals to authority, ignorance, force; petitio arguments, equivocation, and the deontic fallacy). Chapters five through eight are on various aspects of formal/symbolic logic: translating from natural language to the artificial language of logic; truth tables and truth trees; the method of natural deduction; predicate logic, including the logic of relations; and the concept and use of identity and its symbolization.

General

Imprint:	University Press of America
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1997
First published:	July 1997
Authors:	Michael F. Goodman
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	334
Edition:	Second Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7618-0501-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
LSN:	0-7618-0501-X
Barcode:	9780761805014

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