Authors: Peter A. Facione Ph.D. and Donald Scherer Ph.D., 1978

Maybe one of the best classic "baby logic" textbooks ever published; every chapter in this book has been refined, reworked, and field-tested in the classroom with thousands of college students. The book includes a plethora of examples, exercises, and summative self-quizzes. Answers ready to hand refer the learner to the proper section of the chapter for immediate understanding. The book includes all the topic areas considered to be central to a first course in logic including: propositional logic, truth-tables, syllogisms, Venn Diagrams, predicate logic, translation between English and symbolic logic, natural deduction proof systems, and a rich section on formal and informal fallacies. The book also includes chapters on inductive reasoning and on the nature and scope of contemporary approaches to logic as the study of the logical correctness of arguments.

First published by McGraw Hill, this book is now available from Ox Bow Press. This book retails new at about 1/3 of the price of other textbooks covering the same material. Its modular approach permits the maximum flexibility for instructors to chart their own path through the material for their students. For example the study of first order predicate logic can begin fresh with the treatment of Syllogisms, or with Venn Diagrams, or with Sentential Logic. No matter which approach is taken, all of the needed information is included in each of those potential first modules so that, should the other two paths not be included, the students will have received all that they needed to proceed further with their study of first order predicate logic. Or, should one or both of those other modules also be used, the fundamentals of this level of logic will have been addressed from more than one perspective leading to reinforced and deeper learning. The same approach is taken in the modules on the informal and formal fallacies, and in the modules on proof strategies for propositional logic. Multiple avenues leading to the same result provide the learner with an optimal means of truly comprehending not only how logic works but why it works.

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495 + xii pages, 6 x 9. Reprint of first McGraw Hill edition published in 1978.
ISBN 0-918024-33-