Schaum's Outline of Logic | 
| Authors: John Nolt, Dennis Rohatyn, Achille Varzi
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
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Pages: 280
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Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8 x 0.6
ISBN: 0070466491
Dewey Decimal Number: 160.202
UPC: 639785304548
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Publication Date: July 1, 1998
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Product Description
The explosive progress of logic, since Frege, has produced applications in linguistics, mathematics and computer science. Students and practitioners of any of these fields, and of philosophy, will find this book an excellent reference or introduction. Now expanded to include non-classical logic, logic for the computer, and more. The central concepts are explained as they come into play in informal writing and conversation--argument, validity, relevance, and so on. This study guide progresses to concepts such as probability calculus.
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 Logic book review March 25, 2008
I should have had this as a subject in school. This book is a good and user-friendly primer to Logic. Reasonably priced too, I bought another book for a friend who wanted to borough my personal copy.
The Tool (Your Mind) September 17, 2006
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
To solve the riddle beguiling the world
School your mind in the fine art of logic:
No method besides will conjure the clues.
The cosmos concealed is cut and unfurled
By disciples of proof; earthbound magic
Spies the truth behind the mystical ruse.
Unable to deal with angel or ghost?
Take a leaf from the good book of nature;
The rational choice discarded by most:
Plain wisdom reveals the wonders that are.
Reject the unreal and you'll travel far
Out of the past and into the future!
With Aristotle's labor near to hand,
A powerful tool is yours to command.
-Jate
 Very good introductory/review logic book March 13, 2005
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I was took a few logic courses back when completing my bachelors. After several years as with everything else oyur memory becomes stale. I've decided to go to law school so I needed a logic review before taking the LSAT. This book is perfect for that. Clear concise explanations and examples, written very well and doesn't leave you asking questions about the ideas the author is trying to convey to you. I defiitely recomeend this book for the avid knowledge junky or for academic purposes.
Excellent value, well written, a bit old fashioned. June 10, 2003
28 out of 31 found this review helpful
The good news. This book is excellent value for the money, and is the best written Schaum's Outline I have ever read. It is certainly not excessively mathematical, compared to nearly everything that passes for logic nowadays. Schaum's outlines are seldom written by first-raters in their respective fields. This is a clear exception; Varzi is a first rate contemporary philosopher. I would even call this book an excellent example of modern scientific communication.
The bad news. The book's approach to logic is a bit on the old fashioned side. Much of the material on traditional logic could have been omitted. The book shares a flaw that is sadly all too common: trivial propositions take 20-40 lines to prove. The refutation tree or natural deduction machinery of this and other contemporary texts is far too ponderous. This book, like all too many books in the philosophical logic tradition, devotes time to topics that leave me cold, such as modal logic. Meanwhile, it slights or omits topics that fascinate me, such as mereology, the isomorphism between truth functors and Boolean algebra, and metatheory. I like probability and inductive logic and feel that these have a great deal to offer to logic and philosophy, but this book only scratches the surface of these topics. The main consumers of logic nowadays are computer scientists. It is not at all clear that this book would be of any value to them. On the other hand, this is an excellent book for a philosophy major.
excellent introduction to the mechanics of logic March 27, 2003
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
This book is an excellent introduction to what I call the
mechanics of logic. If you are interested in metalogic
proofs, like the deduction theorem, then don't look here.
This book teaches the basics of logic. It presents logic
in several different ways: using Aristole's version (strictly
for historical reasons), using Venn diagrams, a Hilbert-style
logic (rules to introduce and remove boolean operators), and
semantic tableaux. Also, it first introduces propositional
logic, then it proceeds to predicate logic. The book has
a peculiar approach that it does not introduce functions (not
predicate functions) until much later.One of the more interesting chapter covers fallacious arguments.
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