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050 04 BC177|b.B42 2005 
100 1  Bennett, Deborah J.,|d1950- 
245 10 Logic made easy :|bhow to know when language deceives you 
       /|cDeborah J. Bennett 
260    New York :|bW.W. Norton & Co.,|c2005 
300    256 p. :|bill. ;|c21 cm 
504    Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-242) and index
505 0  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 
650  0 Reasoning 
650  0 Language and logic