INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC

Book Details
• Author: Copi, Irving M.
• Brand: Routledge
• Edition: Fifteenth
• Binding: Paperback
• Number Of Pages: 722
• Release Date: 05-09-2019
• ISBN-13: 9780367376239
• Languages: English

For more than six decades, and for thousands of students, Introduction to Logic has been the gold standard in introductory logic texts. In this fifteenth edition, Carl Cohen and Victor Rodych update Irving M. Copi’s classic text, improving on its many strengths and introducing new and helpful material that will greatly assist both students and instructors.

Changes and Additions:
• Chapter 1: A simpler and better definition of "deductive validity," enhancing chapters 1, 8-10.
• Chapter 8:
• Simpler definitions of "simple statement" and "compound statement."
• More detailed examples of the Complete Truth-Table Method.
• Chapter 9:
• A detailed, step-by-step account of the Shorter Truth-Table Method.
• A more complete and detailed account of Indirect Proof.
• Justifications for Indirect Proof and a new section on Conditional Proof.
• Explications of proofs of tautologies using both Indirect Proof and Conditional Proof.
• An explanation of the important difference between sound and demonstrative arguments.
• Appendices:
• New appendix on making the Shorter Truth-Table Technique (STTT) more efficient.
• A new appendix on Step 1 calculations for multiple-line shorter truth tables.
• A new appendix on unforced truth-value assignments, invalid arguments, and Maxims III-V.