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Title: Symbolic Logic (5th Edition) by Irving M. Copi ISBN: 0-02-324980-3 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 01 April, 1979 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $90.67 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great, But Outdated
Comment: I thourougly enjoyed learning from this book, and it became the foundation of my analytic philosophy knowledge.
That said, I do not recommend this book as a text for those attempting to learn logic today. The symbolic language that is used and the mode of problem-solving demonstrated by Copi in this work is long since outdated and using this text will only confuse a logic amateur when they move on to more current and complicated logic.
Rating: 4
Summary: a classic textbook on logic
Comment: This was my first textbook on logic and it has a warm place in my heart. It is not very current or modern, and it's probably not appropriate for teaching logic in the math or computer science departments, but otherwise, it's a lovely book. The two nicest features of this book are the wealth of interesting exercises and the emphasis on language: The correspondence between sentences in English and propositions in logic.
Re the logical structure of English sentences, I would like to note that I used many of the exercises from this book in a logic class I taught a few years ago, and was stunned to see the difficulties students were having: Difficulties in comprehending the logical structure of a sentence in English and then expressing this structure using Boolean connectives and quantifiers. I found this discovery both alarming and curious.
Rating: 5
Summary: This is "the" book to use.
Comment: This was the book I used when I took symbolic logic in college. Very self explanitory - the book can be used to learn symbolic logic on your own. Why? Simply because it's fun!
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Title: Introduction to Logic by Irving M. Copi, Carl Cohen, Dark Alley Publishing ISBN: 0130749214 Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $86.67 |
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Title: Schaum's Outline of Logic by John Nolt, Dennis Rohatyn, Achille Varzi ISBN: 0070466491 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Language, Truth and Logic by Alfred J. Ayer ISBN: 0486200108 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1952 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Understanding Symbolic Logic (4th Edition) by Virginia Klenk ISBN: 0130201421 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 20 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $87.00 |
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Title: The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (Oxford Paperback Reference) by Simon Blackburn ISBN: 0192831348 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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