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Lang Matl
Author Bennett, Deborah J., 1950-

Title Logic made easy : how to know when language deceives you / Deborah J. Bennett

Imprint New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2005

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Location Call No. Status
 CCQ - Lusail Female Library  BC177 .B42 2005    Available
 CCQ - Lusail Male Library  BC177.B42 2005    Available
Description 256 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-242) and index
Contents Introduction : logic is rare -- The mistakes we make -- Logic should be everywhere -- Hos history can help -- 1. Proof -- Consistency is all I ask -- Proof by contradiction -- Disproof -- 2. ALL -- All S and P -- Vice versa -- Familiarity, help or hindrance? -- Clarity or brevity? -- 3. A NOT tangles everything up -- The trouble with not -- Scope of the negative -- A and E propositions -- When no means yes, the "negative pregnant" and double negative -- 4. SOME is part or all of ALL -- Some is existential -- Some are; some are not -- A, E, I, and O -- 5. Syllogisms -- Sorites, or heap -- Atmosphere of the "sillygism" -- Knowledge interferes with logic -- Truth interferes with logic -- Terminology made simple -- 6. When things are IFfy -- The converse of the conditional -- Causation -- The contrapositive conditional -- 7. Syllogisms involving IF, AND, and OR -- Disjunction, an "or" statement -- Conjunction, an "and" statement -- Hypothetical syllogism -- Common fallacies -- Diagramming conditional syllogisms-- 8. Series syllogisms -- 9. Symbols that express our thoughts -- Leibniz's dream comes true : Boolean logic -- 10. Logic machines and truth tables -- Reasoning machines -- Truth tables -- True, false, and maybe -- 11. Fuzzy logic, fallacies, and paradoxes -- Shaggy logic -- Fallacies -- Paradoxes -- 12. Common logic and language -- 13. Thinking well, together -- Theories of reasoning
Subject Reasoning
Language and logic
ISBN 9780393326925