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The logic book / Merrie Bergman, James Moor and Jack Nelson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: United States McGraw Hill 1990Edition: Second editionDescription: xii, 529 pages : illustrations + solutions to selected exercisesISBN:
  • 0079095240
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BC 135 .B435
Contents:
Basic notions of logic -- Background -- Why study logic? -- Sentences, truth-values, and arguments -- Deductive validity and soundness -- Inductive arguments -- Logical consistency, truth, falsity, and equivalence -- Special cases of validity -- Sentential logic : symbolization and syntax -- Symbolization and truth-functional connectives -- Syntax complex symbolizations -- Non-truth-functional connectives -- The syntax of SL -- Sentential logic : semantics -- Truth-value assignments and truth-tables for sentences -- Truth-functional truth, falsity, and indeterminacy -- Truth-functional equivalence -- Truth-functional consistency -- Truth-functional entailment and truth-functional validity -- Truth-functional properties and truth-functional consistency -- Sentential logic : truth-trees -- The truth-tree method -- Truth-tree rules for sentences containing -- Rules for sentences containing and more complex truth-trees -- Using truth-trees to test for truth-functional truth, falsity, and indeterminacy -- Truth-functional equivalence -- Truth-functional entailment and truth-functional validity -- Sentential logic : derivations --The derivation system SD -- Basic concepts of SD -- Strategies for constructing derivations in SD -- The derivation system SD1 -- Sentential logic : metatheory -- Mathematical induction -- Truth-functional completeness -- The soundness of SD and SD1 -- The completeness of SD and SD1 -- Predicate logic : symbolization and syntax -- The limitations of SL -- Predicates, individual constants, and quantity terms of English -- Introduction to PL --Quantifiers introduced -- The formal syntax of PL -- A, E, I, O, U and O sentences -- Symbolization techniques -- Multiple quantifiers with overlapping scope -- Identity, definite descriptions, properties of relations, and functions -- Predicate logic : semantics -- Informal semantics for PL -- Quantificational truth, falsehood, and indeterminacy -- Quantificational equivalence and consistency -- Quantificational entailment and validity -- Truth-functional expansions -- Semantics for predicate logic with identity and functors -- Formal semantics of PL and PLE -- Predicate logic : truth-trees -- Expanding the rules for truth-trees -- Truth-trees and quantificational consistency -- Truth-trees and other semantic properties -- Fine-tuning the tree method -- Trees for PLE -- Fine-tuning the tree method for PLE -- Predicate logic : derivations -- The derivation system PD -- Using derivations to establish syntactic properties of pd -- The derivation system PD1 -- The derivation system PDE -- Predicate logic : metatheory -- Semantic preliminaries for PL -- Semantic preliminaries for PLE -- The soundness of PD and PDE -- The completeness of PD, PD1, and PDE -- The soundness of the tree method -- The completeness of the tree method.
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Includes bibligraphies and index.

Basic notions of logic --
Background --
Why study logic? --
Sentences, truth-values, and arguments --
Deductive validity and soundness --
Inductive arguments --
Logical consistency, truth, falsity, and equivalence --
Special cases of validity --
Sentential logic : symbolization and syntax --
Symbolization and truth-functional connectives --
Syntax complex symbolizations --
Non-truth-functional connectives --
The syntax of SL --
Sentential logic : semantics --
Truth-value assignments and truth-tables for sentences --
Truth-functional truth, falsity, and indeterminacy --
Truth-functional equivalence --
Truth-functional consistency --
Truth-functional entailment and truth-functional validity --
Truth-functional properties and truth-functional consistency --
Sentential logic : truth-trees --
The truth-tree method --
Truth-tree rules for sentences containing --
Rules for sentences containing and more complex truth-trees --
Using truth-trees to test for truth-functional truth, falsity, and indeterminacy --
Truth-functional equivalence --
Truth-functional entailment and truth-functional validity --
Sentential logic : derivations --The derivation system SD --
Basic concepts of SD --
Strategies for constructing derivations in SD --
The derivation system SD1 --
Sentential logic : metatheory --
Mathematical induction --
Truth-functional completeness --
The soundness of SD and SD1 --
The completeness of SD and SD1 --
Predicate logic : symbolization and syntax --
The limitations of SL --
Predicates, individual constants, and quantity terms of English --
Introduction to PL --Quantifiers introduced --
The formal syntax of PL --
A, E, I, O, U and O sentences --
Symbolization techniques --
Multiple quantifiers with overlapping scope --
Identity, definite descriptions, properties of relations, and functions --
Predicate logic : semantics --
Informal semantics for PL --
Quantificational truth, falsehood, and indeterminacy --
Quantificational equivalence and consistency --
Quantificational entailment and validity --
Truth-functional expansions --
Semantics for predicate logic with identity and functors --
Formal semantics of PL and PLE --
Predicate logic : truth-trees --
Expanding the rules for truth-trees --
Truth-trees and quantificational consistency --
Truth-trees and other semantic properties --
Fine-tuning the tree method --
Trees for PLE --
Fine-tuning the tree method for PLE --
Predicate logic : derivations --
The derivation system PD --
Using derivations to establish syntactic properties of pd --
The derivation system PD1 --
The derivation system PDE --
Predicate logic : metatheory --
Semantic preliminaries for PL --
Semantic preliminaries for PLE --
The soundness of PD and PDE --
The completeness of PD, PD1, and PDE --
The soundness of the tree method --
The completeness of the tree method.

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