The Logic Book, 6th Edition

ISBN10: 0078038413 | ISBN13: 9780078038419

By Merrie Bergmann, James Moor and Jack Nelson

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The Logic Book is a leading text for symbolic logic courses that presents all concepts and techniques with clear, comprehensive explanations. There is a wealth of carefully constructed examples throughout the text, and its flexible organization places materials within largely self-contained chapters that allow instructors the freedom to cover the topics they want, in the order they choose.

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION TO DEDUCTIVE LOGIC

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Core Concepts of Deductive Logic

1.3 Special Cases of Logical Concepts

1.4 Deductive Validity and Soundness

1.5 Inductive Arguments

1.6 Logical Consistency, Truth, Falsity, and Equivalence

1.7 Special Cases of Validity

Chapter 2: SYNTAX AND SYMBOLIZATION

2.1 The Syntax of SL

2.2 Introduction to Symbolization

2.3 More Complex Symbolizations

2.4 Non-Truth-Functional Uses of Connectives

Chapter 3: Sentential Logic: Semantics

3.1 Truth-Value Assignments and Truth-Tables for Sentences

3.2 Truth-Functional Truth, Falsity, and Indeterminacy

3.3 Truth-Functional Equivalence

3.4 Truth-Functional Consistency

3.5 Truth-Functional Entailment and Truth-Functional Validity

3.6 Truth-Functional Properties and Truth-Functional Consistency

Chapter 4: Sentential Logic: Truth-Trees

4.1 The Truth-Tree Method

4.2 Truth-Tree Rules

4.3 Using Truth-Trees to test for other Truths

Chapter 5: Sentential Logic: Derivations

5.1 The Derivation System SD

5.2 Basic Concepts of SD

5.3 Strategies for Constructing Derivations in SD

5.4 The Derivation System SD+

Chapter 6: Sentential Logic: Metatheory

6.1 Mathematical Induction

6.2 Truth-Functional Completeness

6.3 The Soundness of SD and SD+

6.4 The Completeness of SD and SD+

Chapter 7: Predicate Logic: Syntax and Symbolization

7.1 Predicates, Singular Terms, and Quantity Expressions of English

7.2 The Formal Syntax of PL

7.3 Introduction to Symbolization

7.4 Symbolization Fine-Tuned

7.5 The Language PLE (Predicte Logic Extended)

Chapter 8: Predicate Logic: Semantics

8.1 Interpretations

8.2 Quantificational Truth, Falsehood, and Indeterminacy

8.3 Quantificational Equivalence and Consistency

8.4 Quantification Entailment and Validity

8.5 Truth-Functional Expansions

8.6 Semantics for Predicate Logic with Identity and Functors

Chapter 9: Predicate Logic: Truth-Trees

9.1 Truth-Tree RUles for PL

9.2 Truth-Trees and Quantificational Consistency

9.3 Truth-Trees and Other Semantic Properties

9.4 Fine-Tuning the Tree Method

9.5 Trees for PLE

Chapter 10: Predicate Logic: Derivations

10.1 The Derivation System PD

10.2 Using Derivations to Establish Syntactic Properties of PD

10.3 The Derivation System PD+

10.4 The Derivation System PDE

Chapter 11: Predicate Logic: Metatheory

11.1 Semantic Preliminaries for PD

11.2 Semantic Preliminaries for PLE

11.3 The Soundness of PD, PD+, and PDE

11.4 The Completeness of PD, PD+, and PDE

11.5 The Soundness of the Tree Method

11.6 The Completeness of the Tree Method

Selected Bibliography

Index

Index of Symbols

About the Author

Merrie Bergmann

Merrie Bergmann received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto and is currently an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Smith College. She has published articles in formal semantics and logic, philosophy of language, and computational linguistics.

James Moor

James Moor received his Ph.D. in history and philosophy of science from Indiana University and is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College. He has developed software for teaching logic and has published articles in philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, logic, philosophy of artificial intelligence, and computer ethics.

Jack Nelson

Jack Nelson received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago and is currently Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Interim Chair of the Philosophy Department at Arizona State University. He has developed software for teaching logic and has published articles in personal identity, epistemology, and philosophy of science.

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