An Introduction to Formal Logic 2nd Edition by Peter Smith ISBN 1108411398 9781108411394

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ISBN 10: 1108411398

ISBN 13: 978-1108411394

Author:  Peter Smith 

An Introduction to Formal Logic 2nd Edition: Formal logic provides us with a powerful set of techniques for criticizing some arguments and showing others to be valid. These techniques are relevant to all of us with an interest in being skilful and accurate reasoners. In this very accessible book, exAn Introduction to Formal Logic 2nd Editionively revised and rewritten for the second edition, Peter Smith presents a guide to the fundamental aims and basic elements of formal logic. He introduces the reader to the languages of propositional and predicate logic, and develops natural deduction systems for evaluating arguments translated into these languages. His discussion is richly illustrated with worked examples and exercises, and alongside the formal work there is illuminating philosophical commentary. This book will make an ideal text for a first logic course and will provide a firm basis for further work in formal and philosophical logic.

 

An Introduction to Formal Logic 2nd Edition Table of contents:

Part 1

• What is deductive logic?
• Validity and soundness
• Forms of inference
• Proofs
• The counterexample method
• Logical validity
• Propositions and forms

Part 2

• Three connectives
• PL syntax
• PL semantics
• ‘P’s, ‘Q’s, ‘↵’s, ‘’s – and form again
• Truth functions
• Expressive adequacy
• Tautologies
• Tautological entailment
• More about tautological entailment
• Explosion and absurdity
• The truth-functional conditional
• ‘If’s and ‘!’s

Part 3

• PL proofs: conjunction and negation
• PL proofs: disjunction
• PL proofs: conditionals
• PL proofs: theorems
• PL proofs: metatheory

Part 4

• Names and predicates

 

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