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For courses in Introduction to Logic or Critical Thinking.
Fundamental, Fresh, Focused. Rendered from Copi/Cohen's
Introduction to Logic, the most respected introductory logic text
on the market, this concise version explains all concepts and
techniques clearly, accurately, and thoroughly, bringing them to
life using a wealth of contemporary examples. Essentials of Logic
was created in response to a need in the market for a book that
effectively covered the fundamental issues in logic. The first
edition of Essentials of Logic was abridged from Copi and Cohen's
Introduction, 11th edition, with an eye to including all and only
those elements that most logic teachers would consider essential.
In the second edition, new topics have been added based on readers'
suggestions. For example, indirect and conditional proof techniques
have been added and many examples have been thoroughly revised and
rewritten. The result is a book that closely reflects what users
deem essential and does so in a way that is sensitive to the needs
of today's students.
Just as The Elements of Style provides a quick and authoritative
reference for writers, The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook for
Critical Thinking provides a quick and authoritative reference for
issues regarding reasoning. The Handbook provides clear and
succinct discussions of the following issues: * Issues germane to
clarifying sentences: ambiguity, vagueness, and propositional
attitudes * General discussions of descriptions, explanations, and
arguments * Criteria for evaluating observational statements and
testimony * Categorical syllogisms, including issues germane to
both the Boolean and Aristotelian interpretations * A complete
system of propositional logic and a brief discussion of the use of
truth tables * Induction: generalization and particularization
arguments, analogies, arguments to the best explanation, Mill's
Methods, counterfactual reasoning, and making decisions under risk
and uncertainty * A brief discussion of the principle formulas
involved in calculating probabilities * An extended discussion of
informal fallacies * An essay on the relationship between critical
thinking and writing
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