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Principles of Deductive Logic

Principles of Deductive Logic

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Clear focus on its application of formal logic to ordinary English is the most distinctive feature of this textbook for the introductory course in deductive logic. Great care is taken with the appropriate translation into logical languages of ordinary English sentences. Evaluation of these translations promotes a more effective use of ordinary language.

The Principles of Deductive Logic presents symbolic logic in a fuller and more leisurely fashion than other introductory textbooks. Early chapters cover informal material, including definition and informal fallacies. The remainder of the text is devoted to the treatment of four distinct artificial languages. The Categorical language is the language of syllogistic logic. The Extended Categorical language enriches this first language with the symbolic connectives for conjunction and negation. The Propositional Connective language and the First-Order language (with identity) are the two basic languages of modern logic. Each language is accompanied by a deductive system, and is used as an instrument for exploring ordinary language, including ordinary arguments

The book contains a large number of exercises whose answers are supplied in the back of the book, and many more that can be assigned as homework. A solution's manual is available to instructors upon their request. The request must be written on college or university letterhead.

Author: John T. Kearns
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 11/15/1987
Pages: 471
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.83lbs
Size: 9.92h x 6.98w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780887064791

About the Author
John T. Kearns is Professor of Philosophy at State University of New York at Buffalo. He is author of Using Language: The Structures of Speech Acts, also published by SUNY Press.

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