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A Concise Introduction to Logic
This text is an introduction to formal logic suitable for undergraduates taking a general education course in logic or critical thinking, and is accessible and useful to any interested in gaining a basic understanding of logic. This text takes the unique approach of teaching logic through intellectual history; the author uses examples from important and celebrated arguments in philosophy to illustrate logical principles. The text also includes a basic introduction to findings of advanced logic.
- Author
- Craig DeLancey
- Publisher
- SUNY Oswego
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Language
- EN
Contents· 20 sections
- 01: Propositional Logic
- 1.01: Developing a Precise Language
- 1.02: Ifthen. and It is not the case that.
- 1.03: Good Arguments
- 1.04: Proofs
- 1.05: And
- 1.06: Conditional Derivations
- 1.07: Or
- 1.08: Reductio ad Absurdum
- 1.09: if and only if Using Theorems
- 1.10: Summary of Propositional Logic
- 02: First Order Logic
- 2.01: Names and predicates
- 2.02: All and some
- 2.03: Reasoning with quantifiers
- 2.04: Universal derivation
- 2.05: Relations functions identity and multiple quantifiers
- 2.06: Summary of first order logic
- 03: A Look Forward
- 3.01: Some advanced topics in logic