Description The Logic Book is a leading text for symbolic logic courses that presents all concepts and techniques with clear, comprehensive explanations. There is a wealth of carefully constructed examples throughout the text, and its flexible organization places materials within largely self-contained chapters that allow instructors the freedom to cover the topics they want, in the order they choose.
Key Features
Reorganized coverage of truth-trees in Chapter 9 now presents systematic trees for PL prior to and independent of trees for PLE, and provides for a more clear and straightforward discussion of the rules for PLE. New annotation in chapters 4 and 9 to indicate completed open branches in truth-trees ('o') as well as closed ones ('x').
Presupposes no previous training in logic
Includes large exercise sets for all chapters
Extensively revised presentation of derivation systems in Chapters 5 and 10 provides greater transparency and places additional emphasis on the need for and use of specific strategies in constructing derivations. In addition, new annotations for the assumptions that begin subderivations specify the reason these assumptions are being made, while the number and variety of exercises in both chapters has been significantly expanded.
New Features
A more focused presentation of deductive logic
A fuller and more accessible discussion of formal semantics
Many chapters have been reorganized so that technical material is presented at the beginning of the chapter