Sweet Reason: A Field Guide to Modern LogicA revolutionary, introductory text for courses on modern logic. While the basic rudiments of formal and informal logical are all clearly described here, it also focuses students on the real world, where the discipline of logic adds substance and meaning to all kinds of human discourse. Everything from puzzles, paradoxes, and mathematical proofs, to campaign debate excerpts, government regulations, and cartoons are used to show how logic is put to work by philosophers, mathematicians, advertisers, computer scientists, politicians, and others. As the book alternately discusses, instructs, questions, teases, and challenges, readers will find themselves absorbing the fundamentals of the discipline, becoming fluent in the language of logic, understanding how logic works in the real world, and enjoying logic's ability to entertain, surprise, subvert, and enlighten. |
Contents
I | 1 |
II | 7 |
III | 8 |
V | 25 |
VI | 26 |
VII | 31 |
VIII | 35 |
IX | 59 |
XXVIII | 201 |
XXIX | 204 |
XXX | 209 |
XXXI | 218 |
XXXII | 263 |
XXXIII | 264 |
XXXIV | 266 |
XXXV | 273 |
X | 75 |
XII | 76 |
XIII | 80 |
XIV | 84 |
XV | 90 |
XVI | 93 |
XVII | 135 |
XVIII | 136 |
XIX | 138 |
XXI | 142 |
XXII | 144 |
XXIII | 183 |
XXIV | 184 |
XXV | 189 |
XXVI | 193 |
XXVII | 196 |
XXXVI | 279 |
XXXVII | 287 |
XXXVIII | 292 |
XXXIX | 333 |
XL | 334 |
XLI | 337 |
XLII | 343 |
XLIII | 393 |
XLV | 394 |
XLVI | 399 |
XLVII | 404 |
XLVIII | 449 |
XLIX | 450 |
L | 458 |
LI | 468 |
Other editions - View all
Sweet Reason: A Field Guide to Modern Logic James M. Henle,Jay L. Garfield,Thomas Tymoczko Limited preview - 2011 |
Sweet Reason: A Field Guide to Modern Logic James M. Henle,Jay L. Garfield,Thomas Tymoczko Limited preview - 2011 |
Sweet Reason: A Field Guide to Modern Logic James M. Henle,Jay L. Garfield,Thomas Tymoczko No preview available - 2011 |
Common terms and phrases
1-1 correspondence 3xAx 3xFx answer argue argument form assumption axiom basic Boolean algebra buffalo buffalo buffalo Bush busy beaver CHALLENGE conclusion contradiction curiosities & puzzles deduction diagram Digestor's Digest English equivalent everything example EXERCISE fallacy false female finite food establishment FORMAL LOGIC Frege garbage is collected Hypergame implies infinite number informal logic Jim Henle letters Lewis Carroll logical form logicians mathematicians mathematics means ment natural numbers negation paradox Perot philosophers player potentially hazardous food predicate language predicate logic premise problem Prolog proof prove quantifiers question Raymond Smullyan reason relevant restricted quantifiers rules sentence Sentential sorites paradox statement logic strategy structure Suppose tautology theorem things tion true truth table truth values universe vague predicates variable VxAx VxFx W. S. Gilbert words write
References to this book
Logik - Faszination der Klarheit : eine Einführung für Philosophinnen und ... Reinhard Kamitz No preview available - 2007 |