1st Edition

Elementary Formal Logic A Programmed Course

By C. L. Hamblin Copyright 1966
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1966. This is a self-instructional course intended for first-year university students who have not had previous acquaintance with Logic. The book deals with "propositional" logic by the truth-table method, briefly introducing axiomatic procedures, and proceeds to the theory of the syllogism, the logic of one-place predicates, and elementary parts of the logic of many-place... Read more

Introduction  Part 1: Logical Relations  1. Statements and Logical Strictness  2. Implication and Equivalence  3. Contradiction and Contrariety  4. Subcontrariety and Indifference  5. Ambiguity and Empty Terms  Part 2: The Logic of Unanalysed Statements  6. Negation and Conjunction  7. Disjunction  8. Implication and Truth-Tables  9. Tautologies and Material Implication  10. Material Equivalence: Rules of Inference  11. Logic from Axioms  12. Logical Relations by Truth-Table  Part 3: The Logic of Predicates  13. Syllogisms  14. Existential Presuppositions  15. Predicates and Quantifiers  16. The Elementary Logic of Relations.  Revision Chapters

Biography

Hamblin\, C. L.