Introduction to Logic, 2nd edition

Published by Pearson (November 12, 2007) © 2008

  • Rod Girle
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Introduction to Logic is a combined text and workbook for students beginning their study of logic. The workbook style allows students to proceed at their own pace, checking their progress in the end-of-chapter exercises.

  • The text covers propositional logic and predicate logic with identity, the focus being on arguments.
  • The methods of proof are truth-tables and truth-trees (semantic tableaux) in the style of Jeffrey.

This text is suitable for students of philosophy, computer science, mathematics and science in general.

Additional resources

Additional teaching and assessment resources are available from the author at r.girle@auckland.ac.nz. These resources include a full set of PowerPoint® presentations, and sample test papers in Microsoft Word®.

Students love this text. Wherever it has been used, the numbers taking logic have soared.

Preface to the Second Edition
Using This Text
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Beginning Logic

Part One: Propositional Logic

Chapter 2 A New Language
Chapter 3 Truth-Tables
Chapter 4 Arguments and Truth-Tables
Chapter 5 Truth-Trees
Chapter 6 Reliability of PC

Part Two: Predicate Logic

Chapter 7 A Richer Language
Chapter 8 Truth in Monadic Predicate Logic
Chapter 9 Truth-Trees For MQT
Chapter 10 General Predicate Logic
Chapter 11 Truth-Trees for Predicate Logic
Chapter 12 Identity, At Least, At Most

Postscript
Answers To Exercises
Index And Glossary
References
Summary

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