Logic

Elementary Logic: Logical Arguments, Uses of Language, Definition and Meaning Fallacies of Relevance, Presumption, and Ambiguity, Categorical Propositions and Immediate Inferences, Categorical Syllogisms and Their Validity, Syllogisms in Ordinary Language, Logical Symbols expressing Argument Form and Statement Form, Rules of Inference and Replacement to prove Validity or Invalidity, Basics of Quantification Theory, Analogical Inferences, Causal Reasoning, Scientific Explanation, and Probability Theory.

This discussion is based on: Copi and Cohen Introduction to Logic 10th Ed. (Prentice-Hall, 1998) {Order from Amazon.com} Richard W. Miller Introduction to Logic Study Guide (Prentice Hall, 1997) {Order from Amazon.com}

Other Recommended Reading: Howard Kahane and Nancy Cavender, Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric (Wadsworth, 1997) {Order from Amazon.com} Douglas N. Walton, Informal Logic: A Handbook for Critical Argumentation (Cambridge, 1989) {at Amazon.com} Merrie Bergmann, James Moor, and Jack Nelson The Logic Book (McGraw-Hill, 1997) {Order from Amazon.com} Patrick Suppes, Introduction to Logic (Dover, 1999) {Order from Amazon.com} Richard C. Jeffrey, Formal Logic: Its Scope and Limits (McGraw-Hill, 1990) {Order from Amazon.com} Willard V. O. Quine Mathematical Logic (Harvard, 1981) {Order from Amazon.com} Brian F. Chellas, Modal Logic: An Introduction (Cambridge, 1980) {Order from Amazon.com} Willard V. O. Quine, The Philosophy of Logic (Harvard, 1986) {Order from Amazon.com}

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