Deductive Logic

By: Warren Goldfarb

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Hardcover | 15 September 2003

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This text provides a straightforward, lively but rigorous, introduction to truth-functional and predicate logic, complete with lucid examples and incisive exercises, for which Warren Goldfarb is renowned.

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Warren Goldfarb's long-awaited Deductive Logic is an unusually perspicuous and effective logic textbook. It succeeds in achieving great precision without seeming pedantic and great depth without compromising accessibility. One main advantage of this book relative to its competitors is the lucidity with which it explains, in ways that even beginners can fully appreciate, the rapport between semantic and syntactic captures of logical consequence. Another marked advantage is the book's emphasis on deduction and its insistence on motivating the various clauses of the rules of deduction by showing, for example, what would ensue had these clauses been flouted. In this, Deductive Logic fills a real lacuna in logic-instruction and avoids the common pedagogical pitfalls of instruction via the tree method, where students find it rather mysterious why and how the method really works. The book is written in a clear and lively style and contains numerous exercises of varying degrees of difficulty. It is ideally suited for students in philosophy and computer science. --Ori Simchen, University of British Columbia
This is the finest introduction to logic available. --John Symons, University of Texas, El Paso

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Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Truth-functional Logic	p. 1
Analysis	p. 3
Statements	p. 3
Conjunction	p. 6
Negation	p. 11
Disjunction	p. 13
Grouping	p. 16
Truth-functions	p. 19
Conditional	p. 21
Logical Paraphrase	p. 28
Logical Assessment	p. 37
Schemata and Interpretation	p. 37
Validity and Satisfiability	p. 45
Implication	p. 47
Use and Mention	p. 53
Equivalence	p. 57
Reflection	p. 61
General Laws	p. 61
Disjunctive Normal Form	p. 67
Expressive Adequacy	p. 76
Formal Systems	p. 79
Monadic Quantification Theory	p. 89
Analysis	p. 91
Monadic Predicates and Open Sentences	p. 91
The Existential Quantifier	p. 97
The Universal Quantifier	p. 104
Further Notes on Paraphrase	p. 113
Universe of Discourse	p. 119
Logical Assessment	p. 123
Schemata and Interpretation	p. 123
Validity, Implication, and Equivalence	p. 129
Testing Monadic Schemata	p. 133
Reflection	p. 139
Monadic Satisfiability	p. 139
General Laws	p. 141
Polyadic Quantification Theory	p. 147
Analysis	p. 149
Polyadic Predicates	p. 149
Paraphrase	p. 157
Logical Assessment	p. 167
Schemata and Interpretation	p. 167
Validity, Implication, and Equivalence	p. 175
Instances	p. 179
Deduction	p. 181
Deduction Extended	p. 188
Reflection	p. 199
Soundness	p. 199
Other Laws	p. 206
Prenex Form	p. 209
Completeness	p. 216
Further Consequences	p. 225
Decidability	p. 227
Identity and Names	p. 231
Identity	p. 233
Inference with Names	p. 240
Descriptions	p. 243
Elimination of Descriptions	p. 247
Exercises	p. 253
Index	p. 289
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