A first course in logic gold edition

Additional order info. K educators : This link is for individuals purchasing with credit cards or PayPal only. Providing students with a more understandable introduction to logic without sacrificing rigor, A First Course in Logic presents topics and methods in a highly accessible and integrated manner. Consistent pedagogical structure helps students learn and study better; the introduction now emphasizes strategies and tactics for applying memorization rules; and one-of-a-kind LSAT-type exercises apply logic to pre-professional exams.

This new Gold Edition of the text now uses standard notation—the horseshoe in symbolizing conditionals, and the traditional approach using syllogisms—to adapt more easily to most classrooms.

In addition, it has been thoroughly class-tested, revised, and reprinted for absolute accuracy of information. Each chapter opens with a brief preview of the main points in the chapter. See page 1 and the beginning of each chapter. Each chapter has a summary of major topics. See pp. This chapter-ending section helps students use concepts to find arguments in real-life sources, criticize real-life arguments given in the text, write papers, and respond to LSAT-type questions.

Where Do I Go from Here? Each chapter ends with suggestions about which chapters or sections to study next. See p. This tentative table of contents is for early review purposes; the final contents may not include all of the selections listed here.

Basic Concepts of Logic. Pearson offers affordable and accessible purchase options to meet the needs of your students. Connect with us to learn more.

Codell Carter believes that teaching should be a conversation between friends, and he wrote A First Course in Logic to reflect this ideal. He has taught more than four thousand beginning logic students throughout his teaching career. Carter is currently a professor at Brigham Young University where, in addition to logic courses, he teaches courses on the history of philosophy especially Kant and Marx along with freshman and junior level writing courses.

His publications include works on 19th and 20th Century medicine, and when not thinking about ways to make the study of logic more relevant to students' lives, he enjoys backpacking, gardening, fly fishing, old books, and mountain lakes above the timberline. We're sorry! We don't recognize your username or password.

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One-of-a-kind LSAT-type exercises apply logic to pre-professional exams. This Gold Edition of the text now uses more standard notation and has been thoroughly class-tested and revised for absolute accuracy of information. Back cover copy Providing students with a more understandable introduction to logic without sacrificing rigor, "A First Course in Logic" presents topics and methods in a highly accessible and integrated manner.

Table of contents This tentative table of contents is for early review purposes; the final contents may not include all of the selections listed here. Basic Concepts of Logic. The Historical Roots of Logic. Induction and Deduction. Validity and Soundness. Logical Strength and Cogency. Logic and Language.

Use and Mention. The Uses of Language. Kinds of Definitions. Ways of Defining. Rules for Lexical Definitions.

Arguments in Context. Syllogistic Logic. Aristotelian Logic. Diagramming and Symbolizing Categorical Statements. Categorical Equivalences. Using Canons to Test Syllogisms for Invalidity. Syllogistic Fallacies. Enthymemes and Sorites. Proofs of Valid Syllogisms.

The Limits of Syllogistic Logic. Truth-functional Logic: Symbolization and Refutation. Stoic Logic. Symbolizing Truth-functional Arguments. Truth Tables. Classifying and Comparing Statements. Implication and Equivalence. Refuting Invalid Truth-functional Arguments. Truth-functional Fallacies. The Sheffer Arrow. Conditional Proof. Indirect Proof. Shortcut Rules. Shortcut Rules, Continued. Strategies and Tactics. Other Uses for Truth-functional Proofs. The Nature of Truth-functional Proofs. Quantificational Logic.

Frege's Project. Quantificational Notation: Monadic Predicates. Quantificational Notation: Polyadic Predicates. Quantificational Proofs. The Nature of Quantificational Logic. Properties of Relations and Second-Order Logic. The Outcome of Frege's Project. Inductive Logic.