Unwavering in its fundamental commitment to today's students and their typical inexperience in rigorous logical analysis, Robert Johnson's A LOGIC BOOK is unparalleled in its ability to make logic simple, if not entertaining. After two chapters on basic concepts--argument, deductive validity, inductive strength, truth of premises--the text presents two different deductive systems, Categorical Logic and Truth-Functional Logic. A chapter on Formal Deduction is then followed by chapters on Inductive Logic and Informal Fallacies. The book culminates in a clear presentation of a strategy for evaluating lengthy arguments. Filled with timely examples and exercises drawn from popular culture, this book is an invitation to logic for even the most apprehensive students.

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• Throughout the text, examples and exercises have been revised and updated for timeliness.
• In a major revision of Chapter Two (Good Argument) two new requirements--"the follows-from requirement" and "the truth requirement" are introduced--and a section (2.5 Are the Premises True?) has been taken from the prior Chapter 10 to round out the discussion of good arguments.
• Chapter 3 (Categorical Logic, Part I) now includes a discussion of the "Raven Paradox."
• Chapter 8 (Inductive Logic) has been streamlined and revised for clarity's sake.
• Chapter 10 strengthens the consideration of empirical and non-empirical statements and examines a set of provocative real world discussions in which the distinction has particular relevance: the status of the human fetus, the nature of human happiness, the morality of terrorism, and the ethics of capital punishment.

Features

• The text features numerous study aids to assist students in mastering chapter material including: chapter openers that summarize major concepts; numerous illustrative examples throughout the chapters; exercises that appear after ever section; review questions that follow every chapter; and, solutions to selected exercises in the back of the book.
• Current real-life examples that students can relate to are taken from magazines and the press.