Introduction to Deductive Logic (Classic Reprint)

Preface This book is offered as a manual for advanced undergraduate and elementary graduate work in logic. It includes some of the fundamentals of modern logic; it excludes, however, as much as, if not more than, it includes. A short bibliography will be found at the back of the book, several items of which are a must for philosophy, mathematics, and science students. The material (exclusive of starred paragraphs) can easily be covered in a one-semester course, each chapter requiring approximately a months work. The fifth chapter is somewhat more technical and may be left out in undergraduate courses. A series of problems is offered at the end of the book for classroom and home work. The method of proof used here is believed to be both rigorous and easy to master. More streamlined methods, though available, have been purposely ignored. Instructors are asked, however, to devise shortcuts of their own if and when the student is ripe for them. Sjonbols, both logical and metalogical, have been used aplenty. Their presence may somewhat slow down the reading of the text, but is justified, we feel, in a primer of symbolic logic. The more philosophical implications of logic, though suggested throughout the text, have not been studied in full. It is hoped again that the student will peruse the list of readings to complete his own picture of logic as a province of philosophy. The material of this book has been used in various courses at Bryn Mawr College and Columbia University. Though the product of some years of teaching, it is plainly open to improvement. The author only hopes that it may equip some philosophy, mathematics, and science students with the indispensable tools of modern logic.
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