Schaum's Outline of Logic

Schaum's Outline of Logic

Schaum's Outline of Logic

Schaum's Outline of Logic

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Overview

An outline of the material covered in courses on Formal and Informal Logic. The outline includes chapters on mathematical approaches to logic (propositional calculus,truth tables,venn diagrams) as well as on fallacies,deduction and induction,probability,and other major topics. Logic is traditionally taught by means of problem solving exercises,so the subject is well suited to a Schaum's Outline approach.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780070466494
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 07/01/1998
Series: Schaum's Outline Series
Edition description: REV
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 8.20(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

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John Nolt is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of Informal Logic: Possible Worlds and Imagination and numerous articles on logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mathematics.

Dennis Rohatyn is a professor of philosophy at the University of San Diego. He is the author of Two Dogmas of Philosophy, The Reluctant Naturalist, and many other works. He is a regular symposiast on critical thinking at national and regional conferences. He is the founder of the Society for Orwellian Studies.

Achille Varzi is an assistant professor of philosophy at Columbia University, New York. His works include Holes and Other Superficialities and Fifty Years of Events: An Annotated Bibliography (both with Roberto Casati) and numerous articles on logic, formal semantics, and analytic metaphysics.



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Table of Contents

Argument Structure.
Argument Evaluation.
Propositional Logic.
The Propositional Calculus.
The Logic of Categorical Statements.
Predicate Logic.
The Predicate Calculus.
Fallacies.
Induction.
The Probability Calculus.
Further Developments in Formal Logic.
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